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Based in Alton, Hampshire, Atlas Helicopters been providing quick air transport services for over 15 years. Atlas Helicopters Photo

Helicopter business is flying thanks to Brexit boost

Atlas Helicopters Press Release | March 27, 2017

Estimated reading time 3 minutes, 12 seconds.

A U.K. helicopter charter company has felt a ‘Brexit boost’ with an increase in requests for business charter flights and site tours across the country.

Based in Alton, Hampshire, Atlas Helicopters been providing quick air transport services for over 15 years. Atlas Helicopters Photo
Based in Alton, Hampshire, Atlas Helicopters been providing quick air transport services for over 15 years. Atlas Helicopters Photo

With U.K. companies needing to reaffirm their relationships and trade deals with clients across the world, plus the low dollar making an investment in the U.K. an attractive proposition, the need to quickly transport potential business contacts across the U.K. is growing.

Based near Farnborough Airport, Hampshire, Atlas Helicopters has been providing this type of service for over 15 years although the recent economic downturn had affected business’ attitude to domestic air travel.

“Following Brexit, we have noticed an upturn in companies looking to fly international clients to meetings and also touring U.K. sites with investors,” said Capt Mike Burns, managing director of Atlas Helicopters.

“This is most welcome as there has been a reluctance to make use of this form of travel since 2008’s economic woes saw a dip in corporate clients using helicopter travel for business opportunities.”

The types of requests include flights from central London and satellite airports to business meetings in the country, or taking interested parties to a collection of industrial sites dotted around the country in one day.

“Most recently we arranged a tour of a company’s three U.K. industrial sites that ended at a country house hotel and restaurant,” said Burns.

“Within a day they traveled 400 miles, starting in London and visited locations in Liverpool, Hull, [and] Leeds with a final destination in Oxford for fine dining. It is the type of itinerary that only a helicopter can complete. ”

The tour is very similar to the one Atlas Helicopters organized for the publishers of author and comedian David Walliams. They needed him to visit six U.K. schools in one day.

For that flight he travelled 445 miles between 8:30 a.m. and 4:10 p.m., starting at Elstree in the morning, ending in Edinburgh in the afternoon and achieving some great publicity.

This event is one of the few occasions Atlas Helicopters can make people aware of their clients’ activities. Discretion is part of their service and something their passengers prefer.

The increase in business flight requests has also been fueled by airports such as TAG Farnborough and Bournemouth receiving more private intercontinental flights.

The owners of these aircraft demand a quick and secure access to the rest of the U.K. Helicopter travel provides a most useful service due to its ability to arrive very close to a designated location and avoid delays on the ground.

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