FLIGHT SUPPORT, the UK”s newest ground handling company, based on the Isle of Man, has purchased Manchester Handling, giving it a presence at Britain”s third largest airport. It has also won a new contract to provide ground support to Scottish low cost carrier flyglobespan.com at both Manchester and Liverpool John Lennon Airports, effective November this year. On 2 November, Flyglobespan commences long haul flights from Manchester to Cape Town and Toronto. From Liverpool Airport it launches Prague and Tenerife. New York follows in May 2007. Manchester Airport becomes the third base in the Flight Support stable, taking its workforce at Isle of Man, Liverpool and Manchester, to some 100-plus.
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