A busy year for emergency humanitarian charters
In 2023, Air Charter Service had its busiest year for emergency response humanitarian flights in several years, with a number of natural disasters and civil unrest requiring aid and evacuations.
Ben Dinsdale, the aircraft charter specialist’s director of humanitarian and government services: “There are humanitarian projects and development efforts that are constantly going on, but unfortunately last year saw a higher number of occasions than usual where we have had to activate our specialist humanitarian task forces around our global offices in response to an emergency.”
Humanitarian missions were numerous. Among others, ACS was in charge of flying rescue teams to Turkey after the earthquake in February, evacuating people from Sudan after the civil war in April as well as flying in a large amount of aid for the people displaced by the conflicts, and transporting generators, water tanks, tractors and trucks to Guam in June after Typhoon damages. (cj)