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Upgrade for ACS onboard couriers

[ May 6, 2015   //   Chris ]

Air Charter Service is to invest heavily in its on board courier division, including now have invested in a dedicated operations office in Frankfurt. It has also hired industry specialists and has updated more than 35 visas for countries that it was not previously able to fly to at a moment’s notice.

Oliver Weigelt has been brought in as the new global time critical manager to head up the operation. ACS now plans open offices at cargo hubs on other continents and aims to be the largest provider of OBC services to freight forwarders in the world.
Group commercial director, Justin Lancaster, said: “We have been offering OBC solutions to forwarders and airlines for several years now, but we felt that it was an area where we could improve our service and so we now have invested in a dedicated operations office in Frankfurt. We have good relationships with more than 25,000 freight forwarders around the world, many of whom use us for time critical charters, so providing them with hand-carry options was the logical next step.”

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