Libya crisis update from Air Charter Service

March 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Leading aircraft provider Air Charter Service has now evacuated more than 4,500 passengers from Libya in one of the largest and most complex evacuation operations the company has ever faced. So far the ACS has chartered 26 flights out of Libya, with more charters yet to fly. Passengers have been of many nationalities including British, American, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese. According to media reports, the number of foreign nationals looking to be evacuated in total is around 100,000. By this rationale, Air Charter Service has evacuated at least 4% of the total number of people that needed to leave Libya. As many of these foreign nationals are crossing the land borders or being evacuated by ferry, ACS has played and extremely significant role in the air evacuation.

The first ACS charter out of Tripoli departed last week, on the morning of Wednesday 23rd February, and was one of the first civilian charters to do so following the crisis. Members of many ACS offices including London, Dubai and New York, worked together as a team to ensure the successful operation in the most difficult and chaotic of circumstances. On Saturday 26th February ACS had a member of staff at Tripoli Airport experiencing the chaotic scenes first hand, and coordinating some of the company’s evacuation charters. ACS also had staff on the ground in Malta to ensure the smooth transit of over 1,000 passengers that the company evacuated from Tripoli, via Malta, to their final destinations in Bangkok and Hanoi. Director of ACS Dubai, Dmitriy Korshunov, was also on hand at Dubai International Airport to greet Chinese passengers from the office’s evacuation flight from Sebha in Libya.

ACS has also flown relief cargo into Tunis for the thousands of refugees that have fled Libya across the border to Tunisia. Thirty tons of aid arrived last Friday including tents, blankets, cooking kits, jerry cans and tarpaulins.

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Air Charter Service is an air charter broker with a global network of 13 offices in North America, South Amrica, Europe, Africa, CIS, the Middle East and Asia.