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Air Charter Service’s Dubai office recently saved some falcons the effort of flying, by chartering an aircraft for them.
Dmitriy Korshunov, Director ACS Dubai, explains: “The falcons were being flown out of the U.A.E. to Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan for a hunting expedition. They received VIP service aboard the B737 aircraft, along with their trainers. Normally any live animals that we need to fly would go on a cargo aircraft, but these well-trained birds of prey sit still long enough!”
Air Charter Service specialise in cargo aircraft charter, commercial airliner charter and private jet charter, and have a long history of flying all types of animals including dolphins, elephants and race horses.

For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: pax@aircharter.ru

Autumn this year didn’t please Russian citizens with the good weather. It’s no wonder that in Air Charter Service there were a lot of incoming enquiries for VIP charter flights to warm sunny countries. So in November ACS VIP charter manager organized and successfully executed the charter for 11 passengers from Saint Petersburg to Galapagos Islands. For this transportation he chose for very comfortable long haul passenger jet Global 5000. One-way flight lasted 17 hours during which aircraft had to make two stops in Bermudas and Ecuador. The process of obtaining permissions from Ecuador aviation authorities turned out to be quite complicated. And nevertheless regardless all the difficulties the professionalism of ACS manager was at highest level and passengers went into raptures from their trip.

Remarkable also the fact that the flight went on at night time but due to Air Charter Service 24 hours service ACS manager was able to manage up-to-the-minute information on the aircraft movements and was giving prompt and clear consultancies to his client.

For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: pax@aircharter.ru

9th of October the Forum of Slavic Cultures was held in Auditorium Schweitzer in Strasbourg. Air Charter Service was honored to deliver Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra to that significant event.   90 passengers – members of Orchestra, organizers and VIP guests – flew to Strasbourg on a very comfortable jet Boeing 737-500. It was also necessary to transport 1.5 tons of different musical instruments such as psalteries, kettle-drums, percussions, accordions, bells line etc. Due to highly professional approach of ACS group flight manager it was possible to arrange everything in 2 weeks time. All the participants and guests of the Forum, including national artists of Russia Vladimir Andropov, Marina Andreeva, Vladimir Matorin, the leader of the event Svyatoslav Belsa, were very happy with the flight and service on board. 

For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: group@aircharter.ru

Air Charter Service are delighted to announce the opening of their new office in Paris. The venture is their third passenger operation in Europe with offices already in Bilbao, Spain, and their head office in London; along with 6 other offices worldwide.

Heading up the new operation is Benjamin Sinclair. Benjamin has been working in the London office for a number of months now, and is very excited to be starting ACS's office in his native France. He has many years in the industry already as both an airline pilot and as a broker. Sinclair commented: "I have established good relationships within the industry over the years, and this is a great new challenge for my self and Air Charter Service. This is the next step in the European growth of the company”.

ACS France plans to utilise the global network of offices that the group has, enabling Benjamin and his team to offer such advantages as empty leg charters – where an aircraft is available flying empty in one direction already - allowing the client to charter more efficiently, therefore saving them money. ACS’ offices span four continents and continue to win more and more business with their local knowledge, a trend that the Paris office intends to keep going.

ACS's managing director, Tony Bauckham, said of the new office: "Within our global strategy we have always had plans to open an office in France and it's very exciting to see those plans come to fruition. The French market is a large one, and, with a team now based in the country we are in a good position to further our already strong business there. We have opened two other new offices so far this year and we expect Paris to emulate their success".

Air Charter Service was founded in 1990, and currently turns over €180 million annually and it operates over 3000 charters per year on all types of aircraft. ACS’s offerings and service have proved so popular, that in a market considered to be shrinking by 25-30% so far in 2009, ACS has grown by around 20% in the first 6 months of the year, in both terms of numbers of charters, as well as overall revenue. 

For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: pax@aircharter.ru

Air Charter Service continues its global expansion with the opening of its second Asian office, in Tokyo, Japan. Able to offer both cargo services, along with executive & commercial jet passenger services, ACS Japan can cater for any charter requirement.

In charge of the Japanese operation is Toru Chiba, who brings a wealth of experience in the charter business with him. Toru has been in the aviation and charter industry for a total of 18 years now, and is excited by this new venture, which is part of a GSA agreement. He commented: “This is a great opportunity for ACS’s expansion within Asia. The Japanese market is a large one, which I know well, and I look forward to utilising my expertise in assisting the many other ACS offices worldwide with localised solutions.”

ACS managing director, Tony Bauckham, said: “Following the success of our office in Hong Kong since it opened, we have been looking to expand in the Asia Pacific region, and we targeted Tokyo a while ago. Many western business people travel to the region and having a local presence allows ACS to offer them the very best solutions using local knowledge. Obviously it also allows us to better serve Japanese clients as well, further expanding our customer base and further strengthening ACS’s position as one of the world’s leading charter companies. Toru has the perfect credentials to make the office as successful as all our others, and we look forward to its development.”

For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: pax@aircharter.ru

Just another step in the development of Air Charter Service was recent expansion of ACS fleet. We would like to call your attention to the new aircraft which we added to our fleet in order to strengthen ACS’ comfort and reliability for the clients. Since all the jets are in management of Air Charter Service we can offer really competitive prices, as well as very flexible discount system to the company clients.

There are the following jets in ACS management at the moment: Cessna Sovereign, 3 a/c of type Challenger 604, Challenger 850 and Learjet 60.
All of the jets are new or have just been refurbished recently. All our aircraft have been certified, manufactured and maintained according to the same standards as all large aircraft used by airlines. The pilots and cabin crew have been trained according to the aviation standards. All pilots and cabin crew regularly practice emergency and abnormal situations to ensure the highest possible safety level.
 
For additional information about aircrafts in ACS management please call 24/7 number +7 495 775 42 70 or leave your message here: pax@aircharter.ru

Air Charter Service Plc (ACS), the worldwide passenger and cargo air charter broker, today announces the opening of its latest office in Hong Kong SAR, China.

ACS has positioned itself to benefit from the growing Asia-Pacific and Australasian market which has seen exceptional growth in private jet usage with official figures showing that since 2003 Hong Kong International Airport has seen steady year on year growth of between 35 and 40% in executive jet movements through it’s Business Aviation Centre, a trend which is set to continue throughout Asia.

Heading up the Asia-Pacific team is Mike Walsh with 12 years aviation experience, who has relocated from the firm’s London office and is to be supported by charter brokers, trained by ACS in London to handle both passenger and cargo enquiries. Yan Fang, Thomas Chan and Stephen Fernandez join the Hong Kong team bringing the languages needed to provide the highest levels of service, namely Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Korean. Soon to join the team is office manager Money Cheng who is also tri-lingual and has worked in aviation for five years with Chinese carriers.

Mike Walsh, Director, ACS Hong Kong said: "Serving the Asia-Pacific region from Hong Kong see’s the realisation of a long term dream for ACS and the opening of the office here has been driven by our analysis of customer demand. This is a huge opportunity for ACS and we have now secured a permanent office in the Central district of Hong Kong. Business in Hong Kong, China and the region in general is undertaken face-to-face so it was vital that we established a key team here in China.”

Tony Bauckham, Managing Director, ACS said: "This is a significant move for ACS, our established global offices network in London, New York, Dubai and Moscow have seen an overall increase in flights consisting of both passenger and cargo of 285% over the last four years and we know that by expanding our presence into Asia these growth figures will be sustained.”

ACS passenger brokers from Moscow and Hong Kong brought their two teams together to ensure a VIP customer reached their destination ahead of schedule and without the hassle of endless hours in transit.  With just a week’s notice the solution from ACS came in the form of a Gulfstream 200, a nine seater mid-size executive jet, which was met by the passengers who were collected from the steps of their scheduled flight by two limousines.

The initial enquiry was received from the PA of an esteemed Russian client who had been tasked with arranging flights between Moscow, Russia and Sanya, China via Hong Kong. He was particularly keen to reduce the transfer time from the scheduled flight into Hong Kong onto the next leg of the journey, so turned to ACS for a last minute solution.

Mike Walsh, Director, ACS Hong Kong said:
“With only one week to plan the flight and our team preparing for the June 2nd opening of our Hong Kong office it was testament to the knowledge of our suppliers and regional contacts in the Asia-Pacific region that we were able to offer our Moscow office and their VIP client such an ideal solution.”

Andrey Gerasimov, a passenger broker at ACS Moscow, said:
“Working with our colleagues in Hong Kong meant that at 09:45am the scheduled flight arrived into Hong Kong from Moscow and was met by two awaiting limousines, barely half an hour later, at 10:20am, the party took off on the final leg of their journey to Sanya, China.”

Contact:  Andrey Gerasimov, Moscow based Passenger Broker and team at Moscow@aircharter.ru
Or Mike Walsh, Hong Kong based Passenger Broker and team at paxsales@aircharter.com.hk