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however the airline pulled out of calgary before starting its service to boise idaho and billings montana . wingtips did not receive the contract from british airways when it commenced service in december 2006 . instead british airways chose servisair to represent them in calgary . in 2006 wingtips was awarded the contract for aeromexico to provide passenger services ; the airline which was contracted by sunwing airlines to provide seasonal service to cancun . the contract only lasted one year as sunwing began using its own fleet of boeing 737 aircraft and again chose servisair to represent them . competition edit servisair is the main competitor in calgary . servisair has a competitive edge because not only does it offer above wing passenger service it also offers ramp services ; thus airlines only having one company work their flight instead of two . airport terminal services ats began offering passenger services in march 2007 when it was awarded the contract for northwest airlines . as of august 2010 airport terminal services ats purchased wingtips and integrated its service into airport terminal services ats . airlines edit wingtips was representing the following airlines air north canadian north enerjet klm lufthansa monarch airlines thomas cook airlines services edit wingtips offered passenger services for smaller and seasonal airlines operating to calgary international airport . these services include airline airport representation load planning and passenger services . location edit wingtips administrative office was located on the second floor of the delta calgary airport hotel . wingtips terminal office was found on departures level area b main terminal calgary international airport . sale edit wingtips was purchased by airport terminal services ats in august 2010 1 with chris richardson staying on as a consultant in calgary . richardson died in june 2012 . 2 references edit http www.atsstl.com news item.asp newsid 73 http www.legacy.com obituaries calgaryherald obituary.aspx pid 158043211 external links edit wingtips retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wingtips airport services & oldid 688871173 categories companies based in calgaryaircraft ground handling companiescompanies established in 1990hidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from august 2014all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 november 2015 at 15 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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