Air Charter Service issues guide on South Korean evacuation
Air Charter Service has issued an guide for large corporations planning to evacuate their expat staff from South Korea, as tensions with the North continue to escalate.
This follows news that Australian Defence officials have announced they are working on plans to evacuate around 7,000 Australians from South Korea.
Gavin Copus, business development director at ACS, said: “We have spoken to security companies that assess travel risk management and crisis avoidance and it seems that the situation is classed as an Amber Alert. This means companies are looking at contingency planning, and some non-essential staff and families of expats are already starting to move on commercial flights out of South Korea.”
Copus added: “Having received requests for contingency planning options from UK, Asian and US contacts, we have put together an Evacuation Planning Guide and the idea is for us to be ready. Whilst we are confident that the situation will be resolved peacefully, planning for the worst is essential as we know how quickly circumstances can change.”
ACS has extensive experience of evacuations having arranged the extraction of more than 10,000 foreign nationals from northern Africa during the Arab Spring in 2011 including flights out of Tripoli and Benghazi.