Menzies Aviation Reviews 

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Looking at 54 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Customers frequently encountered extremely rude and unhelpful staff, leading to frustrating interactions and a lack of assistance. Many people also reported significant issues with service, including lost or delayed luggage, often waiting hours for their bags or facing difficulties with delivery and poor customer service characterized by incompetence. However, some customers noted positive experiences with individual staff members who went above and beyond. These reviewers highlighted specific employees for their professionalism, helpfulness, and courteous demeanor, especially in stressful situations like locating lost items or ensuring boarding.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

In attempt too retrieve lost luggage from Menzies perth office i waited over an hour and was palmed off by multiple people just to be told i cant receive it. Everyone i asked help from was extremely r... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Horrible customer service! Attendant is rude and flipped his name tag when I asked for his name to file a complaint. Kept lying to change his story. Heathrow are using Menzies but they’re horrible.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Extremely rude and nasty staff flew from Amsterdam back to Bristol got off loaded because apparently I was “vaping” didn’t let me travel. Had to pay £130 for a new ticket to get home. No one wanted to... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The service at Lisbon Airport Lost and Found is diabolical. I’ve been in a queue for 45 mins and I’ve move forward one metre. At this rate I’ll miss my connecting flight. Under resourced with incompet... See more


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  1. Aviation consultant

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Menzies Aviation is the leading service partner to the world’s airports and airlines, with operations on six continents, at more than 265 airports in 55-plus countries, serving more than 4 million flights a year and handling over 2 million tonnes of cargo. Supported by a team of over 45,000 highly trained people, the company provides complex and time-critical ground services, including passenger, lounge and ramp services; air cargo services, including handling, warehousing and wholesale freight forwarding; and fuel services, including fuel farm management and into-plane fuelling. Menzies Aviation is recognised across the industry for delivering the safest, most secure and sustainable services tailored to customers’ needs and is essential to keeping passengers, aircraft and cargo moving, round the clock, every minute of every day. Menzies Aviation is headquartered in London, and since its founding in 1833, has become the largest aviation services group in the world by number of countries and aircraft turns.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Encountered superiority attitude from…

Encountered superiority attitude from employees when trying to solve my issues. Plus they are not helping with anything. Asked for some the denied boarding form, they refuse to give me any proof .That happened in Cluj- Napoca.

8 July 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dreadful service … never pick them

Dreadful service … never pick them. The staff do not know their jobs or processes. They are the most unhelpful and inconsiderate folks that we have ever met.
Never hire them,

23 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Menzies disappoints again, yet nothing changes!

Customer agents at the check in desk and gate give you conflicting information and then don’t know who to direct you to if you. Impossible to find where to submit complaints. If you see them checking you in at your airport be ready for a lot of surprises. And they refuse to check and honour your airline codeshare status for luggage. This is at Heathrow terminal two flying with Lufthansa.

18 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

After reading all the reviews I am a little bit worrieda…

After reading all the reviews I am a little bit worried that my luggage will be send to my home. Also the fact that Menzies gives a standard routine reply and I am pretty sure that they will do nothing with the feedback makes me worry. Today I tried to call them 2 times already and I am afraid that I will have to call them much much more. I must say that they called me and that I missed their call, but I can see on my phone how many seconds my phone rang if I miss a call, and that was exactly 0 seconds...

10 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very bad

Very bad service standards for customers and unethical corporate culture for employees

11 April 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute disgrace and no respect or customer care

Our luggage was stuck on the plane and no one from Menzies Aviation contacted us with an update. We called twice daily for five days and no one had an update or knew what was happening. After five days we were told the bags the bags had first of all been separated and secondly were being sent to our home address despite us still being on holiday! We asked to pick up our bags on our return flight home as we were told they were still at the airport but when we arrived we were refused and nobody would come and talk to us regarding our bags. Absolute disgrace.

2 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Abysmal

After our bags were lost travelling from Naples to Nice we lodged the incident then have been unable to contact Menzies aviation at all through any avenue so we went to the airport directly where the representative blankly said to me “2 days is nothing” and closed the door in my face. Disgraceful customer service and there is no avenue to lodge a complaint on their website or through any other channel. Don’t bother with the canned PR response, find my bag.

8 August 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling customer service

This is one of the most ineffective and useless delivery company I’ve ever encountered. They have absolutely no regard for customers concerns. Lufthansa messed up my baggage and I was told Menzies Aviation is dealing with it. I initially thought this is a big company and they will have an efficient system, I was so so wrong. Every time I contacted the number they were so dismissive and they couldn’t be any more passive aggressive even if they tried hard. Don’t go near them as much as it possible can although sometimes it’s not a choice one would voluntarily, very often they are arranged by the airline

5 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don’t expect your bags quickly……

Our bags have been with the courier for two days without any effort to deliver. The customer services is terrible and I tried to get help from Jess. I was informed that if I want my bags quickly there is a charge and I would need to contact airline. Surely a lost bag should be returned express delivery ?? This company lacks help or understanding in a difficult situation. Terrible service.

4 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Rude staff disrespectful and no idea…

Rude staff disrespectful and no idea how to treat customers or listen to them in regards to visa requirements at check in in Edinburgh, incident took place on the 27th June the check in staff were rude to say the least marked me and the rest of my group as a no show ,(visa requirement) which we knew we did not require, the lead at check in made a comment of if security agree they can board if not tough luck very unprofessional, had they checked their timatic system on their computer or the AITA they would have seen I could board and travel without visa instead they chose to ignore me not ask for relevant proof which I carry, now having problems contacting them through calls and emails had to put out more money to rearrange a new flight and lost the money for my original flight which I feel they should reimburse as they marked me as no show, hopefully within the next few days I either get a refund or response

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27 June 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely dreadful service

Absolutely dreadful service! Rude staff, overrating their own persona and significance. Both, at the entrance to the immigration and at the departures. Absolute chaos! Very rare someone actually knows any information and are helpful.
And at the immigration: why on earth do you require 3 persons standing, telling you where to go, stopping you and being rude to you when you dont, when its written all over the signs plus people, who like us, travel 5 times a month, know perfectly well where to go.
They do not have an authority to be rude to people nor demand people to stop! They are an airport service! And if they do have any sort of authority, maybe train them to pick up some manners, that work in the UK, if nowhere else!

1 August 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided. We want to assure you that we take all feedback seriously and will share his with the relevant team for attention.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Garbage Company that pretends to care

I applied for a customer service agent positon. At the job fair, it turns out that Menzies outsources for Frontier. Not my first choice, but I passed the drug test and agreed to the two week training to work for Frontier Airlines in Denver, Colorado.
Incredibly disappointing! One would think that job training would include a knowledgeable trainer or two? A variety of study materials for different learning styles? Interaction between trainees? Mock situations to help us learn?
In reality, we were supplied with dinky computers and had to sit for 8 HOURS EACH DAY doing ridiculous online modules. These were "interactive" and required a lot of clicking around. They often froze up, would lead us in circles, be redundant, or the assessments had the incorrect answers. The trainer was there on the first day to hype us up about travel perks while employed, but was nowhere to be found most of the time after that.
On the day #1 there were twenty of us, by day #7 only eight of us remaining. Now, I consider myself an educated, competent person. But most of the others didn't strike me as people who would be good employees. For example, they would arrive at training on time, but whine about how they didn't have breakfast and were hungry. Then get on their phones doing who knows what for a good 45 minutes, then go order food and bring cheesesteaks in the training room (very distracting). And then finally decide to study. One day there was a thunderstorm, which caused numerous flight cancellations. I personally was thinking about how that could be very inconvenient for hundreds of people - the passengers, flight crew, and even their families! But the other Menzies employees laughed and said that means big paycheck for Menzie employee overtime!!!
I guess I was the only one in trading that thought that was a disgusting mentality.
I ended up abandoning training on day eight. Menzies/ Frontier undoubtedly has some great people! But unfortunately I do not wish to tarnish my own dignity by being associated with this sham. The reviews for Frontier airlines are absolutely awful, 1 star., because of corporate greed. No thanks :(

24 July 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Hello, thank you for sharing this feedback about our induction process. We're very sorry to hear that you didn't have a positive experience.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Delays, unprofessionalism

Delays, unprofessional and rude staff really made me have to write a review.

Landed in Amsterdam where I found out the baggage from the flight had been delayed.

Found the counter for Menzies and there was no one around for 30 minutes and when staff finally showed up she stayed on the phone chatting casually for another 10 minutes while finally telling me after her phone call that she made an announcement that all bags have been moved to another belt.

There was no announcement as I saw most of the others on my flight were still waiting at the original belt.

Really terrible experience

26 July 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor Customer Service

It’s been a year since Menzies Aviation mishandled the paperwork when loading my 3 cats on their flight from Guam to South Korea. Instead of spending 12 hours in their crates they spend 32 hours. Still no apology from them and since I paid the airline who employees Menzies I had no recourse for a refund. #menziesaviationsucks

6 July 2023
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the service provided by Menzies Aviation.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I wish there was a no star rating

I wish there was a no star rating. The worst possible company I've had the displeasure off taking to. Lost our luggage. Calling them and getting trig to them is like pulling teeth. Get your finger out and do what you're paid to do!

1 July 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Hello, thank you for your feedback and we are very sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experience. We are constantly looking at ways that we can improve the services we offer passengers and we take all feedback very seriously.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible baggage handling service in Melbourne

Terrible baggage handling service at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport. Bag lost over a week, no updates, no replies, they don’t pick up their phone, don’t respond to voicemail. It’s actually atrocious! They should face some sort of repercussions. If I did my job this badly, I’d be unemployed.

17 June 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Hello, thank you for leaving this review and I am sorry to hear about your experience. We can assure you that we take all feedback seriously and constantly work to improve the services we offer.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not human

Not human. They made a little trick so the standard rolling suitcases are 1cm too small. We always travel with these suitcases: no problem at all. Now got fined by €100, no empathy or giving us less of a penalty. Hope the world gets to know what a useless people are operating this. No more Easyjet for us!!

12 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bad Service at check in OR Tambo Christoper Mashego

I tried to check in for a Safair flight from OR Tambo to George. The clerk who was nearly lying in his chair appeared to be uninterested to help me and told me when I asked if he was on duty that he was. I asked if he could help me to check in but he replied that I should give him a minute or two because he was opening a sweet.

1 June 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for sharing your feedback and we are very sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experience at OR Tambo International Airport. We take every review very seriously and continuously look at ways we can enhance the services we offer customers.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Slow and useless baggage handling at…

Slow and useless baggage handling at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Takes ages for baggage to arrive, feels like it's two 75 year old pensioners doing the job.

4 June 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you for your feedback and we are very sorry to hear about your experience at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. We take all feedback seriously and constantly strive to enhance the services we offer our customers.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service from Jay at Luton Airport

I left my ipad on the plane and Jay went the extra mile to retrieve it for me as soon as possible. I really appreciated his efforts, especially as I was travelling with my two young children and my elderly mum. 5 stars to him, thank you so much!

26 May 2024
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Reply from Menzies Aviation

Thank you very much for taking the time to leave this review. We're delighted to hear that you were so pleased with the service you received from Jay.

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