Air Charters Benefit from Cyber Outage

At least one aircraft charter specialist saw a spike in flight charters following the global IT outage that hit most airlines last week. Air Charter Service saw an increase of more than 10% compared to the same date last year, as people looked for alternate means of travel.

“Figures from flight data analysis specialist, WingX, show more than a 10% increase in private flights from Europe and the U.S. on Friday, compared to the same day last year, which is significantly ahead of the year on year figures for July so far,” said Joe Gallimore, director at ACS.

“We had a real surge of activity on Friday, with bookings even still coming in on Sunday. Our U.S. offices, in particular, were extremely busy, with our Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Washington offices all booking multiple flights for clients that either didn’t want to miss out on their holiday, or had to be at an all-important meeting that day.”