ACS heavily involved in Iraqi elections

Leading aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, has been extensively involved with transporting the necessary equipment for the Iraqi elections that took place last month.

Since as early as last year, just before the regional elections, the company has performed more than twenty charters carrying ballot papers, ballot boxes, ink and promotional material for the contenders, amounting to well over 1,000 tons of cargo in total.

Justin Bowman, CEO at Air Charter Service, commented: “Our Turkish and Dubai operations arranged charters for election materials to be flown in from the Far East and the Middle East to a range of destinations including Baghdad, Basra and Erbil. And we performed the first ever landing of a widebody freighter into Al Najaf when we took a B777 there last year. We also used A330s and B747s for the loads.”

Air Charter Service has been involved in many elections in the past; this year alone they include the South African, Indian, German and provincial Canadian elections.

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Benjamin Deacon, PR Co-ordinator

Tel   44 (0)20 8335 1059 │  Email ben.deacon@aircharterservice.com

About Air Charter Service

• Our name is Air Charter Service: no ‘s’ on the end, and not simply ‘Air Charter’ as email addresses might suggest, it can be abbreviated to ACS however

• Formed in 1990 by Chairman Chris Leach in his basement, now employs more than 280 staff worldwide

• We are a global company with 16 worldwide offices, not ‘UK-based’, with offices spanning five continents offering private jet, commercial airliner and cargo aircraft charters

• Revenue in excess of US$ 400 million and arranges almost 7,500 charters annually

• Total number of passengers flown in 2013: 231,502

• Total amount of cargo flown in 2013: 31,172,000kgs

• Voted Cargo Charter Broker of the Year at the ACW World Cargo Awards 2013, voted Charter Broker of the Year at the Payload Asia Awards 2013 and awarded Charter Broker of the Year 2014 by Air Cargo News