Air Charter Service Plc (ACS), the international air charter broker, arranges both passenger and cargo aircraft to and from any airport in the world. Founded in the UK in 1990, ACS is building its global presence with already established offices in London, Dubai, New York and Moscow and is to expand into Asia with an office in Hong Kong, the office is due to open in June 2008.

Its continued year on year growth has meant that turnover now exceeds $170 million; it has a customer base of over 600 and a team of 65 brokers who closely monitor over 50,000 aircraft at any one time and arrange over 3,200 flights annually.

The ACS website (www.aircharterservice.com) contains the specifications of a range of both cargo and passenger aircraft as well as live access to a list of empty leg flights offering customers significant discounts on one way legs. The empty leg offering is synonymous on the passenger and cargo side.

All trainee cargo brokers that start with ACS are given expert guidance in load planning, the handling of hazardous goods and months of training in how to work under pressure, not to mention obligatory familiarization flights on a range of cargo aircraft.