Aircraft charter specialist working tirelessly on hurricane relief operations

领先的包机专家, 包机服务, has arranged more than 130 charter flights so far in response to the various hurricanes that have ravaged the Caribbean 和 some of the southern states in the US, 运送乘客和货物.

ACS首席执行官贾斯汀·鲍曼说, said: “Our US offices were already busy arranging charters in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Texas when Hurricanes Irma 和 Maria left a path of destruction across the Atlantic Basin. We are still arranging charters every day to send aid to those affected. So far we have arranged more than 130 flights, evacuating groups of people 和 carrying a total of almost 3,000 tonnes of humanitarian cargo in the past four weeks.

“We have ACS staff on the ground in San Juan, helping to coordinate the movements of the aircraft 和 ensuring that the aid gets to those who need it as quickly as possible. We have arranged charters for various American specialist freight forwarders as well as the British government’s Department for International Development 和 the Ministry of Defence – one of which was a helicopter on board an 安东诺夫124飞机. The helicopter has since been used to distribute aid more effectively as many of the airports in the area were badly damaged 和 unable to accept fixed wing aircraft.

“The majority of the cargo has been the usual mix of relief goods however, 比如帐篷包, water bottles 和 ration packs for the victims left homeless on isl和s such as 巴巴多斯 和 波多黎各.

“In the lead up to the hurricanes hitting, our passenger division was also working hard, chartering more than 20 aircraft to evacuate groups of people from the region.”