Chris Leach began Air Charter Service from the basement of his home in Kingston Upon Thames in 1990 and now, with nearly 30 years’ of experience and a network of highly trained aviation experts in 26 offices across the globe, ACS has become one of the world’s leading international aircraft charter companies.

Air Charter Service’s highly trained aviation specialists have spent plenty of time on the tarmac, allowing them to hone their knowledge in how best to manage a charter flight from beginning to end. This expert knowledge allows them to tailor-make the best solution for any type of consignment, and with a global network of offices speaking multiple languages, a choice of 50,000 aircraft, and excellent industry connections, they can offer the most cost effective and suitable solutions for your shipments.

Air Charter Service was created with family values and customer service at its core, and that continues today, with each charter expert available to you 24/7to ensure all aspects of your cargo charter run efficiently and to assist you on the ground throughout. They are able to access airports in under-serviced and secluded locations, which allows for your cargo to arrive as close as possible to where it needs to be.

ACS are the experts when it comes to all types of cargo charter and specialise in several areas:

  • They are highly experienced within responding immediately to worldwide time-critical cargo requests for industries such as; automotive, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and airlines.
  • They have a worldwide reputation responding to emergency situations and moving humanitarian and relief cargo quickly and effectively. They have played an integral role in assisting during events such as typhoons,outbreaks, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and most recently and globally, during the COVID-19 outbreak.
  • Their network allows them to spring into action to get ground aircraft back in the air as quickly as possible with their AOG solutions. Moving spare parts, flying in engineers and using their dedicated OBC division to hand deliver valuable parts.
  • They are experts in handling dangerous goods charters, using their specialist skill-set and expert knowledge to be able to source the correct aircraft to carry sensitive freight.
  • When scheduled services can’t fly into hard-to-reach destinations, they are highly experienced in arranging cargo charters to remote destinations and hostile locations.
  • With the animals well-being paramount, and as trusted animal transportation specialists, they are able to arrange aircraft charters for animals of all shapes and sizes, which is far quicker and more humane than moving animals by road, seas or scheduled flight.
  • For cargo such as oil industry equipment, aircraft engines, stage sets and vehicles that are not able to be loaded on scheduled services, they offer a wide range of charter solutions for the transportation of heavy and outsize cargo.
  • If you need to move sensitive documents or vital automotive parts,they offer an onboard courier service to make sure the delivery of sensitive, valuable or time-critical consignments arrive quickly and securely.