All Charter Company articles – Page 22
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ATSG revenue increase in third quarter
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the medium wide-body freighter aircraft lessor, saw third quarter 2015 revenues increase 3% to $142.3m, including a 6% increase in freighter aircraft leasing revenues.Excluding revenues from reimbursements, third-quarter 2015 revenues increased 6% for the US-based lessor.Joe Hete, president and chief executive of ATSG, said: “We ...
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ACS helps helicopters fly in for a refit
Air Charter Service transported two Mil Mi-8 MTV helicopters from Africa into Europe for a major refit.Justin Lancaster, commercial director at ACS, explained: “We flew the helicopters in on an Ilyushin IL-76 to Europe where they will be renovated. This type of helicopter is used by almost 70 different nations’ ...
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ACMI market set to grow as carriers seek flexibility
The ACMI (wet-lease) aircraft market will continue to grow in future because of carriers’ need for flexibility, while the number of wet-lease joint ventures and long-term relationships will also continue to increase.Speaking at Air Cargo News’ Freighters and Bellyhold Conference in Abu Dhabi, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and ...
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Charter brokers evolve to face new threats
Traditional cargo charter brokers are developing their services as they face competition from new market entrants and customers increasingly gain direct access to airlines.Speaking at the Freighters and Belly Cargo Conference in Abu Dhabi, Air Charter Service (ACS) group commercial director Justin Lancaster highlighted some the challenges faced by traditional ...
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ACS opens in Miami
Air Charter Service has opened its doors in Miami - its fifth office in North America after Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Toronto.President of ACS North America, , Richard Thompson, explained: “We have a really strong customer base in Florida and decided that now was the right time to ...
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Qatar Cargo teams up with UK actress for Nepal aid flight
Qatar Airways Cargo stepped in to transport 5.3 tonnes of aid collected by several charities supported by British actress Joanna Lumley to earthquake victims in Nepal.The aid was collected by several of the Gurkha charities which Joanna Lumley supports in the UK, but they had no means of transporting the ...
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On board courier service flying at ACS
Air Charter Service's on board courier (OBC) department, launched in the Spring, is currently averaging a booking every twelve hours and is already 40% ahead of budget.Oliver Weigelt, the company’s global time critical manager, commented: “We are doing 60-70 jobs a month and we’re expecting to do even more in ...
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UPS Foundation is more than a helping hand
A potential volunteer army of 400,000 logistics professionals allows US parcel and logistics giant UPS to provide logistical support in supplying humanitarian relief aid when global disasters strike.The UPS Foundation recently delivered nearly 45 tonnes of American Red Cross relief supplies to help more than 50,000 residents of the Commonwealth ...
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Houston upgrade for booming ACS
Air Charter Service’s Houston operation has upgraded to larger premises a little over a year after the US arm of the UK-based broker opened its doors, helped by booming cargo demand.Dustin Roades, director of ACS Houston, said: “We have hired three new charter specialists this year already to cope with ...
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Freighters expected to win marketshare from bellyhold
Freighters are expected to maintain and even grow their marketshare compared with bellyhold despite the increased cargo carrying capacity of passenger planes that are joining the market.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and chief commercial officer Michael Steen said that since ...
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Air Partner delivers 90 tonnes of food to the Central African Republic
The cargo charter arm of UK-based Air Partner has arranged an urgent B747 freighter flight for nearly 90 tonnes of food items to the Central African Republic on behalf of Ecolog International, a Dubai-based integrated service solutions company.The aid was delivered in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization ...
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ACS first-half revenues jump by 41%
Air Charter Service (ACS) has reported a "strong" set of result for the first half of the year, with revenues up by 41%.Although it didn't reveal exact figures, it is under no obligation to do so under its private ownership, the company said it had experienced an increase in revenue, ...
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Air Partner cargo arm remains a key component
Air Partner, the UK-based global aviation services group with a cargo charter division, saw half year gross profit rose by 13% to £12.1m while underlying operating profit and underlying profit before tax doubled to £2.2m.Mark Briffa, chief executive of Air Partner, commented: "Our first half performance is a great testament ...
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Rolls-Royce to Airbus with no time to lose
Ruslan International has completed a milestone cross-channel flight for Rolls-Royce, transporting a new Trent XWB-97 engine from the UK’s East Midlands airport to the Airbus testing facility in Toulouse, France.The aeromanufacturer’s highest ever thrust production engine will undergo extensive testing at the Airbus workshops.Heavy air cargo specialist Ruslan International used ...
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VIDEO: Air Charter Service celebrates 25 years in business
Air Charter Service (ACS) has commissioned a special film (see below) charting its history to celebrate 25 years since chairman Chris Leach and his wife Tina founded the company in the basement of their London home.Leach, who previously worked for Saturn Airways, Transamerica Airlines and freight forwarder Savino Del Bene, ...
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Mystery lessee for B777 freighter
Aircraft lessor FLY Leasing has acquired a new Boeing 777-200LR freighter in a sale and leaseback transaction with an unnamed “leading flag carrier” on a 12-year lease.Colm Barrington, chief executive of Dublin-based FLY, said: “The B777-200LRF is the leader in its class with no competitor that provides similar operational or ...
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Small fry take wing with Volga-Dnepr
Volga-Dnepr has delivered a shipment of 1.2m Muksun fish to help repopulate the freshwater Ob River basin in northern Russia.The whitefish, mostly found in the Siberian Arctic waters, were transported in four 2.5 ton water containers with oxygen tanks from St. Petersburg to Salekhard onboard one of the Boeing 737 ...
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Now we’re getting rally cross
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and logistics partner GAC transported 19 Rallycross cars from Canada to Norway on a chartered Kalitta Air B747-200F for the FIA World Rallycross Championship.It is the first time cars for the competition have been transported by air.The occasion was attended by Norwegian rally drivers Petter Solberg and ...
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The great ketchup catch-up
Air Charter Service kept a leading fast food restaurant chain in ketchup last week when it moved 90 tonnes of sachets.President of the North American operation, Richard Thompson, explains: “The company’s restaurants across the North East and South East of the US were running extremely low on ketchup and the ...
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ACS arranges aid flight to war torn Aden
Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged the first civilian cargo flight into Aden since the troubles started in Yemen almost five months ago.ACS chief executive Justin Bowman said that civilian cargo flights carrying much needed humanitarian aid have not been allowed into Aden for months.But on August 13 the charter ...