Air Charter Service launches ACS Aviation Solutions consultancy division

Drawing on three and a half decades of global aviation experience, Air Charter Service has launched a new division – ACS Aviation Solutions – which will be headed up by the experienced Matthew Purton and offer a wide range of aviation consultancy services for customers across the industry.

Matthew Purton explains: “We feel that the unparalleled global knowledge that ACS has acquired in the last 35 years would have value to a range of different customers in the aviation space, including assistance to airlines, airports and investors. Our expertise means we are able to offer a unique consultancy, getting to the bottom of what the client really wants and offering impartial fact and extensive real-world based advice.

“We arrange more than 30,000 charter flights every year, utilising thousands of airlines, to airports all around the world. Our unique position means that we can offer consultancy services and advice to airlines in situations in which they do not have the right expertise. This could include managing large charter projects for smaller airlines who do not have the capacity and resources for a request. It could also include remarketing aircraft in or sourcing aircraft from regions unfamiliar to them, using connections with industry stakeholders with whom they may not have existing relationships. Airlines generally do not have the same global reach, experience and connections that ACS has gained through the nature of our business and global presence. We have contacts and a trusted network of suppliers for catering, handling, fuel and permits, which enable us to assist carriers when they operate to places that they are unsure of.

“Over the last 10 years we have chartered aircraft into or out of more than 4,000 IATA or ICAO recognised airports, along with thousands more dirt runways, ice runways, non-designated airfields, helipads and even water landings. With this knowledge and expertise, we are also able to help airports when they are looking at passenger experience through the terminal by comparing them to similar facilities through which we have operated. We are also able to provide route analysis and find airlines to provide consolidated routes to serve demand for one off peak periods – an example of which would be school half term skiing in February.

“Finally, we also feel that we will be able to aid investors in the charter space. As we arrange over one billion dollars’ worth of charters every year, working with a worldwide network of carriers, lessors and owners we can provide invaluable insight into the market.”

Justin Bowman, ACS CEO, added : “Matthew is the perfect person to take up the role as head of the division – with a background in aircraft operations, he joined the company’s fledgling Group Charter division in 2005 and played a pivotal role in the department’s exponential growth over the next two decades. Most importantly, he knows the company inside out and can bring ACS’s collaborative knowledge together from across our network around the world to assist airports, airlines and investors.”