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Air
Services.

Three commercial wrappers, one fleet. Pick the level that fits your shipment, your network, your week.

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ACMI is for carriers who want lift but already own the network. Charter is for one-off lifts. Full-Service is for shippers who want us to manage the entire move — gate to gate.

ACMI ↓ Charter ↓ Full-Service ↓
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ACMI.

— Aircraft · Crew · Maintenance · Insurance
Best for
Carriers, integrators, freighter networks

You bring the network and the commercial. We bring the airframe, the cockpit crew, the maintenance and the hull insurance — by the block hour.

Most of our ACMI customers are scheduled cargo carriers covering capacity gaps, integrators ramping for peak season, and forwarders running their own programs. Contracts run from short-term seasonal to multi-year.

→ What we provide
  • ✓Aircraft (B747-400F or MD-11F)
  • ✓Cockpit crew
  • ✓Line maintenance and engineering support
  • ✓Hull, war and crew insurance
→ What you provide
  • ›Fuel
  • ›Landing, navigation, handling fees
  • ›Schedule, route and commercial
  • ›Cargo insurance
Cargo loading on Western Global freighter
// Main-deck loading · ULDs Photo · WGA Ops
Term
3–60 months
Pricing
Block-hour
Min utilization
Customer-set
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Charter.

— Single-flight, multi-leg, on-demand cargo lift
Best for
Forwarders, shippers, governments, NGOs
Western Global freighter in Hong Kong
// HKG arrival · Asia-Pacific lift Photo · WGA

A single trip, a round trip, a tour, a relief operation. We quote it, we position the aircraft, we fly it. Twenty-four hour ops desk, AOG-trained, no-frills decision-making.

Charter customers come to us when the freight is too big, too urgent, too political, or too awkward for a scheduled service. We've moved helicopters, satellites, racing yachts, mining equipment, vaccines, election ballots and humanitarian aid — usually on short notice.

→ What's quoted
  • ✓Aircraft, crew, fuel, insurance
  • ✓Routing and overflight permits
  • ✓Optional ground handling and customs
  • ✓Optional outsize-load engineering
→ Typical lifts
  • ›Outsize / heavy / awkward
  • ›AOG aircraft-on-ground recovery
  • ›Government & humanitarian
  • ›Aerospace and defence
Quote turnaround
< 2 hours
Aircraft positioning
Worldwide
Ops desk
24 / 7 / 365
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Full-
Service.

— Door-to-door · We manage the whole move
Best for
Direct shippers, OEMs, programmatic users

Hand us the freight and the postcode. We do the booking, the trucking, the handling, the customs, the flight and the last mile — under one contract, one invoice and one phone number.

Full-Service is the right call when you don't want to assemble the supply chain yourself. It's our most integrated offering and the one customers tend to stick with once they've used it.

→ Included
  • ✓Aircraft + crew + maintenance + insurance
  • ✓Fuel and all flight expenses
  • ✓Origin and destination ground handling
  • ✓Trucking, warehousing, customs brokerage
  • ✓Booking, dispatch, and 24/7 customer ops
→ Common use cases
  • ›Aerospace component flow
  • ›Pharma and life-sciences cold-chain
  • ›Energy & mining project cargo
  • ›Recurrent humanitarian programs
Western Global freighter on tarmac
// Tarmac · End-to-end ground stack Photo · WGA
Single contract
1 invoice
Single point of contact
1 ops desk
Tracking
Door → Door
04 / Side-by-side

What's
included?

Component ACMI Charter Full-Service
Aircraft✓✓✓
Cockpit crew✓✓✓
Maintenance & engineering✓✓✓
Hull / crew insurance✓✓✓
Fuel—✓✓
Landing, nav & handling fees—~✓
Routing & overflight permits—✓✓
Trucking & first / last mile—opt✓
Customs brokerage—opt✓
Schedule & commercialcust✓✓
Best for Carriers Forwarders Direct shippers
✓ Included ~ Optional — Customer-provided
05 / Ready when you are

Tell us
where it
needs to go.

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Ops desk · 24/7
+1 239 482 7600
Quotes
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HQ
Estero, FL · USA