Global aircraft charter broker, Air Charter Service (ACS), has passed the 30,000 flights benchmark for 2024, a record that comes at the heels of the company’s 35 year anniversary.

“That means that, on average, a flight arranged by ACS took off somewhere around the world every 17 and a half minutes on every day in 2024,” said founder and chairman, Chris Leach.

Leach, along with company chief executive, Justin Bowman, founded the company in his family home’s basement in 1990. Today, the air charter specialist has 35 offices worldwide that work to arrange private jet, commercial airline, and cargo charters in more than 200 countries.

“We experienced our busiest ever summer month and finished the year exceptionally strongly, as it was touch and go at the end of November as to whether we would pass the landmark figure,” said Leach.

Air Charter Service arranged over 30,290 flights in the last year with 1,400 airlines, which ranged from commercial flights to evacuation and relief missions, celebrity world tours, and the relocation of 39 White Rhinos from Namibia to Dallas, USA to aid species conservation efforts.

It will be expanding its reach even further in 2025 with three new offices, including Manchester, Dublin, and Munich, and a recently opened one in Milan.

“This year’s figures have started well – January’s flight numbers were 12.1% up compared to January last year, so we are in good shape for an even stronger 12 months in 2025,” Leach said.