Air Charter Service evacuates ovr 4,500 from Libya
28-Feb-2011 Air Charter Service has now evacuated over 4,500 passengers from Libya in one of the largest and most complex evacuation operations the company has ever faced, with the company’s Dubai office playing a key role in the operation. So far the company has chartered 26 flights out of Libya, with more charters yet to fly, with passengers from many nationalities including Turkish, British, American, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai. According to reports, the number of foreign nationals looking to be evacuated in total is around 100,000. By this rationale, ACS has evacuated at least 4% of the total number of people needing to leave Libya. As many of these foreign nationals are crossing the land borders or being evacuated by ferry, ACS has played and extremely significant role in the air evacuation.
The first ACS charter out of Tripoli departed on Wednesday and was one of the first civilian charters to do so following the crisis. Members of many ACS offices including Dubai, Spain, London and New York worked together as a team to ensure the successful operation in the most difficult and chaotic of circumstances.
ACS had staff on the ground in Malta to ensure smooth transit of over 1,000 passengers who we evacuated from Tripoli (see pic 1) to their final destinations in Bangkok and Hanoi. ACS Dubai's Dmitriy Korshunov was also on hand in Dubai International airport to greet Chinese passengers from our evacuation flight from Sebha in Libya. (see pic 2). On Saturday, ACS had a member of staff in Tripoli who recorded the scene in the airport which can be found on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmREbvFo4o.