Aviation and air logistics
Air movements, ground handling and the permissions that allow them
An air movement is usually held up by paperwork rather than by capacity. Overflight and landing permissions, diplomatic clearance and dangerous goods documentation each run on their own approval chain, and none of them accelerates because an aircraft is standing by.
We open the permissions alongside the aircraft and the handling, so that the clearance and the slot exist for the same date.
What this covers, in full
Ground handling
- Handling for military and state aircraft
- Ground support equipment, de-icing and hangarage
Permissions
- Overflight and landing permits
- Diplomatic clearance
Charter
- Cargo charter, including outsize and heavy loads
- Passenger charter for personnel rotation
Specialist movements
- Aeromedical evacuation coordination
- Movement of dangerous goods under the applicable regulations
How the work runs, in three steps
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Start with the clearance, not the aircraft
Permissions set the calendar. Diplomatic and overflight requests are opened first and the schedule is built around what comes back, rather than a schedule being defended against what does not.
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Match the aircraft to the load
Dimensions, weight and centre of gravity decide the type. Selecting the aircraft first is how a single load ends up split across two flights.
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Build the paperwork before the pallet
Dangerous goods declarations, manifests and customs documents are ready before loading begins. A pallet that has to be broken down at the ramp has already lost its slot.
Across every area
What comes with the work, whatever the operation is
These are not a separate service line and they are not charged as one.
- One point of contact
- A named coordinator holds the file across ports, countries and service lines, and does not hand it on halfway through.
- Screening and counterparty checks
- Suppliers and subcontractors are checked against sanctions lists before use, and their ownership is rechecked when it changes.
- Anti-bribery applied outward
- The policy binds our suppliers as well as us. Where a payment is expected that we will not make, the client hears about it.
- Tenders and framework agreements
- Support to tender submissions, and management of the framework once it is in place, including its reporting obligations.
- Cost control and consolidated billing
- Costs broken down by port call, mission or deployment. One invoice, with every underlying document available behind it.
- Insurance and risk
- Insurance coordination including war risk, and risk assessment for personnel movements into difficult jurisdictions.
Tell us what the operation needs, and where
Ports, airfields, dates, volumes. Whatever is fixed so far is enough to start from.