Our Company was founded on April 8, 1958, with the leadership of Turkish Airlines Inc., the provider of almost the entire capital of our company, with the title of USAŞ A.Ş. in order to offer aircraft ground services in the aviation industry. But, the activities of our company first started back in 1933 with the conducting of ground services for the company which was then titled Devlet Hava Yolları (State Airlines). The name State Airlines was changed to Turkish Airlines Inc. in 1955, and our Company solely served Turkish Airlines Inc. from this date until 1958, the year in which it was restructured as USAŞ with the leadership of Turkish Airlines Inc. in order to also offer ground services to foreign airline companies flying to/from our country in line with the fast developments in the aviation industry, and it provided ground services to all foreign airline companies in Turkey thereafter.

The Company, after continuing its services in that way until 1987, was then split into two companies of USAŞ (Aircraft Catering Services) and Havaş (Ground Handling Co.), one charged with offering aircraft catering services and the other ground services, respectively. So Havaş is the first and the original company established to provide ground services for aircrafts at airports in Turkey, and it still performs these services.

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