Air Charter Service achieves record monthly charter numbers
Leading aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, has said that June was the busiest month in the company’s history, completing more than 800 charter contracts.
Justin Bowman, the company’s CEO, commented: “It’s an astounding figure. To put it into perspective, we chartered more flights in June 2014 than we did in the whole of 2003. Some charter contracts consist of more than one leg and in June we flew almost 1,200 flight sectors in total: that means an ACS flight took off, on average, once every 40 minutes throughout the whole of June.
“The business was evenly spread as well, considering it was none of our three divisions’ record month, which is even more pleasing from our point of view. All 18 offices contributed, with almost every one up year on year for June.
“We did a lot of flying for the FIFA World Cup in the month and the flights were spread across private jets, commercial airliners and even some cargo aircraft. However, despite the extra business that the tournament produced, the underlying figures are still impressive and would still constitute our busiest month.”
In fact ACS’s charter numbers are currently 23% up on the same stage last year, which was the company’s record year, indicating that the market is recovering across all aspects of aircraft chartering.
Benjamin Deacon
PR Co-ordinator, North America
Tel 516 508 9781 │ Cell 516 240 3061 │ Twitter @ACS_USA
About Air Charter Service
• 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
• Voted Cargo Charter Broker of the Year at the ACW World Cargo Awards 2013 and 2014, voted Charter Broker of the Year at the Payload Asia Awards 2013 and awarded Charter Broker of the Year 2014 by Air Cargo News
• 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
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