ACS begins airlifts for Ukrainian refugees
Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged its first charter flights with relief cargo on behalf of its clients in aid of refugees from the war in Ukraine. Early Tuesday morning, 1 March 2022, the first of at least six flights, a B737 freighter, landed at Rzeszów airport (Poland), which only two months ago welcomed the AN-225.
ACS staff will be shortly arriving in Poland, to coordinate future flights to Rzeszów, Warsaw and Chișinău (Moldova) on the ground and further flights are being planned to countries bordering Ukraine.
Compared to previous large scale humanitarian relief operations, the industry must now mobilise with a smaller pool of aircraft available, due to many of these specialist cargo airlines being either Russian, which are banned, or Ukrainian which in many cases have had their operations disrupted or aircraft destroyed. (ah)