Service-VS Registration Renewed under ISAGO
OREANDA-NEWS. JSC ‘Service-VS’ ground service provider (GSP) at Vnukovo airport successfully renewed their registration for conformity with ISAGO (IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations) standards.
JSC ‘Service-VS’ has become Russia’s fifth GSP to obtain the ISAGO registration in 2011 year and confirm its compliance with the standards in 2013 year at the same time extend own scope of activity. The audit was conducted in the following areas of the company’s activities in 2013 year:
Organization and Management System;
Load control
Passenger Handling
Baggage Handling;
Aircraft Handling and Loading;
Aircraft Ground Movement,
which confirms the company’s commitment to using the cutting-edge standards in safety management in ground operations. The ISAGO audit is voluntary and serves a token of the attention the company is paying to safety provision in every aspect of its business. The ISAGO registration allows for wider cooperation with the world’s leading carriers and better marketing of provider’s ground-based services. Among them, registration allows to reduce costs by elimination of redundant audits. ISAGO provides GSPs with a model for operational risk & safety management in their organizations and for the first time there is a system for registration and sharing of audit results.
ISAGO serves to improve ground services safety through reducing the level of aircraft damage, personnel injuries, preventing from act of unlawful interference and through the use of unified standards developed with account to the world’s best practices.
A reliable ground services provider is one of the most important elements to flight safety, since a safe flight begins on the ground.
The history of JSC "Service-VS" is inextricably linked with Vnukovo Airport and its development. With a long-lasting history and experience it continuously provides passenger handling and aircraft maintenance at the airport. Today more than 130 Russian and foreign air carriers are partners of JSC "Service-VS”. The company has more than 1,300 employees and more than 500 units of ground aviation, which allows us to serve more than 100,000 flights a year. JSC "Service-VS" holds ISAGO and EASA Part145 certificates confirming compliance with the international standards for safety of ground handling and aircraft maintenance.
Vnukovo International Airport is one of the largest air transportation hubs in Russia. Every year the airport serves more than 150 thousand flights of Russian and foreign airlines. Airport route map covers all the territory of Russia, the CIS countries, Western Europe, Asia, North America and Africa.
Vnukovo airfield has two intersecting runways with the capacity 58 operations per hour. Vnukovo-1 airport consists of two terminals: international passenger terminal B with the total area of 25 thousand square meters and a new passenger terminal A with the total area of 270 thousand square meters, 170 thousand square meters of which have been already put into operation. Second launch complex of terminal A will be opened in December 2012.
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