UVglobal Network member Feras, which offers ground services in
the former Communist bloc (the firm can assist travelers even
in Siberia), is branching this month to Germany's Berlin-Schönefeld
and Frankfurt-am-Main airports, reports co-founder Chris Cartwright.
Feras has established stations at more than 30 airports over the
past two years, bringing the network total to more than 60 locations
in upwards of 10 countries. The company claims special expertise
is difficult markets and airports with minimal facilities, with
English-speaking staff delivering VIP services like secure limousines
even when local facilities are undeveloped.
Feras sells discount fuel, provides credit for all airport fees
at all locations, and can handle cargo as well as passengers.
"Most of Russia and Eastern Europe does not have dedicated
executive aircraft facilities," Cartwright notes. An increasing
number of clients like to use Feras services at both ends of a
trip, he says, hence the new offices in Germany.
A second 24-hours operations center has been added at Prague,
augmenting Feras offices in the region at Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade
and Zagreb. Farther east, Feras has a 24-hours operations center
in Moscow, and another in Khabarovsk, center of an eight-airport
Siberian network that also includes Irkutsk, Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka
and Vladivostok.
The company has instituted fleet volume pricing too.
"We fully expect our European client base to turn to us with
more demanding requirements," Cartwright says. Clients are
increasingly delegating "more operational duties to us besides
just handling, credit and fuel."
The Feras office in the Berlin-Schönefeld GA terminal will
handle services for passengers using the German capital's Tempelhof
and Tegel airports as well.
Cartwright himself is moving to Berlin following stints in Moscow
and Warsaw.
Feras is part of the UVglobal Network displaying at Booth 1435
here.
