Insider says demand is far outstripping supply and calls for creation of air bridges to evacuate people from Middle East
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Planes are always urgently sought out when a crisis strikes somewhere in the world. Since the US-Israel war against Iran started on Saturday, demand has outstripped supply with thousands of people stranded in the Middle East frantically searching for an exit route.
While many are reliant on governments to dispatch aircraft to evacuate them, those with the financial means can look at a more expensive and much speedier option – a private jet. Matt Purton, the director of aviation services at UK-based global company Air Charter Service, is the man some of them have on speed dial.
Purton not only organises for the rich and the famous to be ferried around the world, he also assists governments, fielding requests from everyone from the UK Home Office to the US government seeking planes to deport migrants or carry out evacuations from collapsed countries such as Libya.
