Partnership expected to add $2M to airport’s bottom line
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A subsidiary of the Winnipeg Airports Authority, in partnership with a large French company, will now be in charge of a range of behind-the-scenes services at Richardson International Airport.
The partnership between Winnipeg Airport Services Corp. (WASCO) and Bouygues Energies & Services (a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) will be responsible for the airport operations centre, the baggage operations centre and the pass office at the Winnipeg airport.
The work had previously been handled by security firm SRG, which is also partially owned by the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA).
“We have now been in the new terminal building for a period of time,” said Barry Rempel, the chief executive officer of the WAA. “It was time to re-map operations to make sure how we are doing things are the best way possible.”
SRG will continue to be responsible for the security, but the other day-to-day operational issues — such as the call centre to cleaning coffee spills, fixing broken appliances and attending to the baggage system when bags get jammed — will now be handled by this new 27-person unit.
WASCO — a wholly owned subsidiary of the WAA — was established more than 10 years ago to provide third-party airport management services as an alternative revenue stream for the WAA.
Its largest contract to date is the total-facility management and airport-operations services, including airside and ground maintenance, at the Iqaluit Airport.
That 30-year contract is in association with the construction arm of Bouygues, which is undertaking a $300-million renovation and expansion of the Iqaluit Airport, which is on schedule to be completed in 2017.
WASCO started formal management of the airport in April.
Rempel said the fees WASCO will make this year will add about $2 million of profit to the WAA’s bottom line.
In addition to that work, WASCO and Bouygues are also partners in providing janitorial services at the Kelowna International Airport.
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