Air Charter Service Expands Manchester Office, Nearly Doubling Floorspace After Two Years of Growth

Air Charter Service (ACS) has moved its Manchester office to new premises offering almost double the floorspace of its previous site. Alex Sadat Shafai, CEO of ACS Manchester, said the company had already outgrown its original space within two years of opening.

The Manchester office was opened in 2024 to develop ACS's client base in the region's technology, sports and music markets. Sadat Shafai said, "These new premises give us almost double the floorspace of the old operation, meaning we can push on from our impressive first couple of years." He noted that Manchester is home to six current Premier League football clubs within a 40-mile radius, as well as cricket grounds and proximity to the Grand National at Aintree.

ACS reported that it has arranged more than 2,000 sports-related charter contracts over the past five years. The company offers helicopter, private jet and commercial airliner charter services from the Manchester base.

Regional office expansions like this one typically track client demand built up over a short operating window rather than a long-run presence, and ACS's two-year timeline from opening to outgrowing its space fits that pattern for a broker chasing sports, music and technology clients clustered around a single city.

Charter brokers in this segment lean on proximity to recurring event calendars — football fixtures, cricket grounds, racing meets — because that density of scheduled demand supports repeat contracts across helicopter, private jet and commercial airliner charter without requiring a new client base for every booking.

What happens next will show in whether ACS's sports-contract volume from Manchester keeps pace with the larger premises, and whether the office extends further into the technology and music markets it was originally opened to serve.