Air Charter Service (ACS) opened its latest office in Hong Kong today (3 June) as it positions itself to take advantage of the expanding Asia-Pacific and Australasian markets for private jet hire.
Since 2003, Hong Kong International Airport has seen steady annual growth of between 35% and 40% in executive jet movements through its Business Aviation Centre, and ACS believes this trend is set to continue across Asia.
"Business in Hong Kong, China and the region in general is undertaken face-to-face so it was vital that we established a key team here in China,” said ACS Hong Kong director Mike Walsh, who has relocated from the firm”s London office.
”Serving the Asia-Pacific region from Hong Kong sees the realisation of a long term dream for ACS and the opening of the office here has been driven by our analysis of customer demand.”
The new team is made up of staff between them speak the key languages needed ”to provide the highest levels of service ” namely Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Korean,” according to the company”s statement.
ACS managing director Tony Bauckham added: "This is a significant move for ACS, our established global offices network in London, New York, Dubai and Moscow have seen an overall increase in flights consisting of both passenger and cargo of 285% in the last four years and we know that by expanding our presence into Asia these growth figures will be sustained.”