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Air Charter Service gives quarterly sales update

Leading aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, has reported a buoyant first financial quarter of the year, especially on the private jets side of the business, which saw revenue increase by almost 20%, compared to the same period last year.

Chris Leach, ACS’s Founder and Chairman, commented: “We are delighted with performance across the board at this stage of the year [our financial year starts on February 1st], but particularly happy with private jets, which saw a significant increase in revenue, up by 19.2%.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to acquire a number of low value, high volume contracts, with multiple daily flights on different continents. These have massively inflated our total private jet charter numbers, making them incomparable to the same period last year.

Chris Leach.

"However, if you take these contracts out, our underlying flight numbers have still increased by 13.3%, which is particularly pleasing when compared to the industry average, which only saw small growth over the first quarter of the year.

“With regards to the rest of the year, we are probably in the most uncertain period since Covid, and it is impossible to foresee the impact of various geo-political situations in the world on the charter market. However, with our global footprint, diverse businesses and portfolio of clients we are as well-placed as any company to deal with any fallout they may cause.

“Whilst private jets saw the strongest growth, our other divisions of cargo and group charter also had healthy increases in revenue, leaving the group up 8% to $280m on February-April 2024.”