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Lyndee du Toit, Director of ACS South Africa, used her dangerous goods experience once again to ensure an extremely urgent cargo shipment got to its final destination on time – in fact, it arrived ahead of schedule.

Lyndee received the call on a Wednesday evening – the customer needed to get the goods from Cape Town to Pemba, Mozambique, as soon as possible. Lyndee found a suitable Embraer 110 within half an hour of the initial call and, once details and contracts had been arranged, the aircraft prepared to position into Cape Town first thing in the morning. Lyndee used her contacts and worked with the operator overnight to obtain the various tricky overflight and landing permissions. The following morning the aircraft was prepared and ready before the shipment itself, as the crew waited for the complicated customs procedures to be completed.

The aircraft set off with little over a ton of payload shortly afterwards and made its way, via a fuel stop in Gaberone, Botswana, to Pemba and then on to its final destination at an oil and gas works in Mozambique where the project workers were waiting for it. Lyndee commented that the client was extremely pleased as the flight ‘could not have gone any smoother’, and the aircraft arrived ahead of the proposed schedule.

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Lyndee du Toit, Director of ACS South Africa, recently transported two lots of dangerous goods to Mozambique and Tanzania. The shipper flew the goods over to Cape Town from the U.S. on a chartered Learjet, and then it was down to Lyndee to coordinate the shipment on to its final destinations of Pemba and Dar Es Salaam.

Aside from the overflight and landing permissions for the Pilatus PC12 aircraft, the tricky part was that the shipment contained two different types of dangerous goods - explosives and radioactives. These two had to be kept apart and properly segregated from one another, so careful planning was involved.

Lyndee’s years of experience proved invaluable, and everything ran smoothly.

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Air Charter Service continues its global expansion with the opening of its second Asian office, in Tokyo, Japan. Able to offer both cargo services, along with executive & commercial jet passenger services, ACS Japan can cater for any charter requirement.

In charge of the Japanese operation is Toru Chiba, who brings a wealth of experience in the charter business with him. Toru has been in the aviation and charter industry for a total of 18 years now, and is excited by this new venture, which is part of a GSA agreement. He commented: “This is a great opportunity for ACS’s expansion within Asia. The Japanese market is a large one, which I know well, and I look forward to utilising my expertise in assisting the many other ACS offices worldwide with localised solutions.”

ACS managing director, Tony Bauckham, said: “Following the success of our office in Hong Kong since it opened, we have been looking to expand in the Asia Pacific region, and we targeted Tokyo a while ago. Many western business people travel to the region and having a local presence allows ACS to offer them the very best solutions using local knowledge. Obviously it also allows us to better serve Japanese clients as well, further expanding our customer base and further strengthening ACS’s position as one of the world’s leading charter companies. Toru has the perfect credentials to make the office as successful as all our others, and we look forward to its development.”

Recently Air Charter Service’s South African office received a call to transport a Mil Mi-8 helicopter up to Afghanistan. The aircraft is the world’s most produced helicopter, having first been introduced more than forty years ago.

Lyndee du Toit, Sales Director of ACS Johannesburg, knew from her years of experience in the industry, that an IL-76 was the correct aircraft for the job. The flight was to depart from Cape Town and deliver the helicopter into Kabul. The only minor problem encountered was with slots into Kabul which are very restricted. The airline overcame this however, and the aircraft arrived safely at its destination.

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Lyndee du Toit, Sales Director ACS South Africa, was called into urgent action when she had to transport some unusual vehicles to Saudi Arabia as soon as possible. They needed to be moved from Johannesburg, and be in Riyadh within 4 days for testing, and there was no alternative other than a charter.

Using her local knowledge, Lyndee quickly sourced an IL-76 that was ideal for the armoured personnel carriers. Good cooperation between ACS, the airline and the relative authorities meant that the traffic rights were obtained swiftly, and the aircraft departed less than 3 days after the initial call. “The client was very happy with our solution”, commented du Toit. “The vehicles arrived earlier than we had promised, and everything about the job went smoothly” she added.

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