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John Menzies - Focus on short haul airline

June 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • MNZS
  • Price:
  • 311.5p
John Menzies provides a range of essential airport services. These include groundhandling, such as managing passengers and luggage, as well as air cargo services and into-plane fuelling and it operates in 198 airports across 34 countries. It obviously had a  torrid year in 2020 as 70% of its revenue was linked to passenger aircraft and 30% was linked to cargo. Conditions got so tough that at the worst point in April and May, activity fell 75% but a presentation given to me by the company during the month shows that in Q4, things were back to 49% of pre-COVID-19 level, while in FY 2021 they expect to be back up to 63%.As I describe fully below, Menzies had already been restructuring its business before the pandemic hit, taking £10m ...

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John Menzies plc is the holding company of Menzies Aviation plc, an aviation services business providing ground handling, cargo handling, cargo forwarding and into-plane fuelling, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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