Air Charter Service launches ACS Aviation Solutions

Air Charter Service has launched a new division.

ACS Aviation Solutions will offer a wide range of aviation consultancy services for customers across the industry.

Matthew Purton will head the new division.

Purton joined Air Charter Service in 2005 as a charter sales executive.

Most recently, he was the director of worldwide commercial jet sales.

Purton explains the new group.

He says, “We feel that the unparalleled global knowledge that Air Charter Service 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.”

Purton adds, “Our expertise means we are able to offer a unique consultancy, getting to the bottom of what the client really wants and offering impartial facts and extensive, real-world-based advice.”

ACS Aviation Services will, in part, provide consultancy services and advice to airlines in situations in which they lack the right expertise.

This could include managing large charter projects for smaller airlines that lack the capacity and resources to accommodate a request.

It could also include remarketing aircraft in or sourcing aircraft from unfamiliar regions, 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,” Purton says.

He notes, “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.”

Air Charter Service experience

Over the last 10 years, Air Charter Service has chartered aircraft into or out of more than 4,000 IATA or ICAO-recognized airports, along with dirt runways, ice runways, non-designated airfields, helipads, and even water landings.

“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,” he says.

Air Charter Service CEO Justin Bowman says, “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.”

Bowman continues, “Most importantly, he knows the company inside out and can bring ACS’s collaborative knowledge from across our network worldwide to assist airports, airlines, and investors.”