ACS recieves 'People Development Award'

ACS is delighted to announce that it has been accredited with the ‘People Development Award’ by IFW, an award voted for by industry professionals, the publications Editor and which is hotly contested by our industry peers.

This award comes just two months after The Sunday Times officially recognised ACS as ‘one to watch’ in their ‘Best 100 Companies to work for’ list.

ACS train every one of their brokers in London irrespective of whether their final destination is going to be in the UK, Dubai, Moscow, New York or Hong Kong. The universal training ensures that all ACS brokers are trained to the same high standards.

Tony Bauckham, Managing Director of ACS said: “Employee development is at the forefront of ACS’ ongoing plans for the future; each employee is moulded, nurtured and valued and as their career progresses and is given a wide choice on what external training courses they would like to undertake, with ACS’ financial support. We are thrilled with this award as it clearly demonstrates our commitment to our staff and our future.”

Christopher Leach, Chairman of ACS said: “Given that our continued growth relies on our staff retention with our brokers contributing increasingly the longer they are with us, we have institutionalised best practice training and development practices to the point of excellence.”

Will Waters, awards judge and Executive Editor of IFW said: “ACS showed clear evidence of its commitment to thorough training and continued improvement of its staff. It clearly outlined the important difference that exists between just training staff and encouraging lifelong learning.

“The judges were impressed by the best practice awards that it offered its staff and by how it empowered staff to seek out additional training. It also offered an innovative mentoring system involving all of the company from the boardroom to the shop floor.”

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Air Charter Service opens Asia office in Hong Kong

Last May we opened our fifth office in Hong Kong. ACS has positioned itself to benefit from the growing Asia-Pacific and Australasian market which has seen exceptional growth in private jet usage with official figures showing that since 2003 Hong Kong International Airport has seen steady year on year growth of between 35 and 40% in executive jet movements through it’s Business Aviation Centre, a trend which is set to continue throughout Asia.

Heading up the Asia-Pacific team is Mike Walsh with 12 years aviation experience, who has relocated from the firm’s London office and is to be supported by charter brokers, trained by ACS in London to handle both passenger and cargo enquiries. Yan Fang, Thomas Chan and Stephen Fernandez join the Hong Kong team bringing the languages needed to provide the highest levels of service, namely Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Korean. Soon to join the team is office manager Money Cheng who is also tri-lingual and has worked in aviation for five years with Chinese carriers.

Mike Walsh, Director, ACS Hong Kong said: "Serving the Asia-Pacific region from Hong Kong see’s 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. This is a huge opportunity for ACS and we have now secured a permanent office in the Central district of Hong Kong. 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.”

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