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Air Charter Service found itself in a tight spot recently when it was asked to move two high cube containers from Italy to Saudi Arabia with oil and gas industry. The boxes fitted into the Ilyushin IL-76, with a clearance of less than 10 centimetres with the doors open. The client originally requested an AN-124 but detailed planning allowed the smaller plane to be used, saving the client a significant ...
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Air Charter Service’s Brazil and Florida offices chartered Antonov Airlines’ giant AN-225 to carry the heaviest single piece of air cargo to be flown in the Americas, a 182 tonne transformer from São Paulo to Santiago de Chile. From there it was transferred to its final destination, where it replaced ...
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Coyne Airways and Air Charter Service are backing War Child, a charity which supports children affected by conflict. Family-run Coyne and ACS will donate an agreed amount per transaction on behalf of their customers, starting from next month. Customers will be given the opportunity to match the donation on a ...
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UK-based Air Charter Service said in late October that it had arranged several flights to Haiti, following Hurricane Matthew earlier this month. They were operated by aircraft including AN-12s and Boeing 767s, from Europe and the US, carrying material including medicine, mosquito nets tarpaulins, jerry cans and buckets.
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Investment firm Alcuin Capital Partners is to buy a minority stake in freight and passenger broker Air Charter Service. ACS chief executive Justin Bowman says the business has grown from small beginnings when it was set up by Chris Leach in the basement of his house to be the largest ...
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Air Charter Service has helped rehome two dolphins from Amsterdam to their new home in the Canary Islands. ‘Sting’ and ‘Makai’ travelled on an AN-74 aircraft with qualified vets in attendance from Maastricht Airport to Las Palmas Airport on 4 May where they were transported on to Palmitos Park, a ...
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Air Charter Service is celebrating 25 years since chairman Chris Leach and his wife Tina founded the company in the basement of their family home in south west London.
Chris Leach, who worked as a cargo aircraft loadmaster as well as for freight forwarder Savino Del Bene, started the business ...
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Air Charter Service is to invest heavily in its on board courier division, including now have invested in a dedicated operations office in Frankfurt. It has also hired industry specialists and has updated more than 35 visas for countries that it was not previously able to fly to at a ...
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Aid agencies are facing a logistical nightmare in trying to help victims of the Nepalese earthquake, says Air Charter Service – but local red tape is making the situation even worse. Group commercial director Justin Lancaster, said they had grave concerns about the amount of relief goods they will be ...
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Air Charter Service has appointed Richard Thompson as president of its North America operations. He will be responsible for the company’s operations in New York, California, Texas and Canada and steps into the position previously held by Andy Christie, who was promoted to Group Director of ACS’s Private Jet charter ...
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