On this episode, we visit Telford, UK to meet with Graham Corfield, CEO and entrepreneur behind Aviramp. Graham reveals how a chance call from an airline wanting a ramp for disembarking disabled passengers in 2009 kick-started his company’s Cinderella story and why he always gets the best business ideas when he should be switching off on a sun lounger….

Liam Bolger is hanging up his Hi-Vis as Head of Airfield Operations at London Luton Airport this month. Max catches up with an industry pioneer whose ground handling firsts include implementing IGOM, GSE Pooling and the London Luton Safety Stack. 

Liam gives his view on why 1 week's training is inadequate for operatives entering the hazardous ramp environment and the critical importance of the team over individual protagonists when it comes to honing your airfield operations.

In this episode Stefan Murphy, CEO of Unifi UK & Ireland, speaks to the GHI Podcast team about his remarkable journey from washing cars to a chance trip to the airport that culminated in setting up UK business Up & Away Aviation in 2008. The company was later acquired by Unifi in 2023, and this year Unifi secured its first UK business aviation ground handling contract at London Oxford Airport, marking a key milestone in its global growth.

Meet leadership guru and former aviation manager, Desiree Perez, of Desiree Perez Coaching & Consulting.

Over a decade ago, Desiree, was placed into a daunting frontline leadership role at a US airport without being taught the basics of people management. 

Hear what Desiree learned and how she's on a mission to share her extensive leadership know how with colleagues in the aviation industry who face a similar situation. 

This episode Americas aviation expert, Gustavo Di Cio, debriefs Max on the ground handling opportunities accompanying the opening up of Argentina's aviation market. 

What are the tenders going to be won and lost on? Will we see the multinational ground handlers enter Argentina? What will it mean for services to airlines across South America?

This episode we talk aviation family ties with Danny Vranckx, Aviaco GSE, CEO and Xander Vranckx, IT manager at the company and Danny's son. 

We ask why it is that aviation tends to create family dynasties with sons and daughters, nephews and nieces following their parents uncles and aunts into the world of A-1.  Danny reveals the quality mantra at the heart of Aviaco GSE's rise and Xander reveals why a birthday visit to the apron with his father back in the day was definitely a better gift than a trip to Disney World....  

It's an extra special episode of the GHI Podcast this week as Sophie and Max meet the team that have pioneered the delivery of a global first - a centralised, fully electric, GSE fleet at a major airport. Hear from Marisa Von Wieding, Vice President of Operations, The New Terminal One at JFK and Kevin Constant, Commercial Director Americas, TCR on why they went all out on this sustainability milestone. We discover why the bid to deliver sufficient electric charging points kept Marisa up at night, how Kevin and the TCR team put boots on the ground to solve the charging challenge and why airport-led pooling of equipment could empower ground handlers to focus solely on unleashing the full performance-enhancing potential of their staff.

Join Sophie, Sam and Max as they get behind this week's hottest aviation headlines. This episode we explore the latest autonomous GSE trials with EZTow at Kansai International Airport. Max puts his biochemistry degree to the test as we talk about an all-hydrogen aircraft turn at Exeter Airport. And we receive all the latest from the Airport Show Dubai where dnata announced GSE fleet investment, Max went to tour the dnata GSE technical workshops and we got a glimpse of the WALL-E style airport journey of tomorrow at the new Al Maktoum International Airport.  

View the image of EZTow Max refers to at the Airport Show here... https://email.groundhandling.com/files/amf_mark_allen_group/workspace_241/PIC.jpg

Join your hosts Sophie Skinner-Jones and Max Gosney on the GHI Podcast for a behind the scenes look at the biggest stories in the global ground handling market. Joined by special guest Samantha Payne Polepaka. 

A sneak peak into the challenges and opportunities of introducing digital tools into a ground handling station as Rajan Chellappa at Rsmart and Arif Patel at AISATS reveal a bid to go paperless to improve PRM services at Delhi Airport.