PRESS KIT

Media centre for journalists covering LFS

Everything an editor needs to write about Location Flight Services: approved boilerplate, verified facts, logo files, story angles and a direct line to the operations desk. Anything not listed here, ask us — we do not publish figures we cannot stand behind.

Press contact

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Fast facts

Legal name
Location Flight Services (LFS)
Website
https://lfs.aero
Sector
Aviation trip support · flight dispatch · ground handling
Directly operated stations
29
Countries with LFS staff on the ground
14
Worldwide coverage
Any airport, via vetted partner agents
Operations desk
24/7/365
Media & press contact
OPS@LFS.AERO

Approved boilerplate

Use either version verbatim. Both are kept current; the station count is generated from the live LFS station registry.

Short — one paragraph

Location Flight Services (LFS) is a global aviation trip support and flight dispatch company. LFS arranges ground handling, ATC flight plans and dispatch, overflight and landing permits, Jet A-1 fuel, slots and crew logistics for business, cargo, government and medical flights — 24/7, at any airport worldwide. LFS has its own teams on the ground at 29 stations across 14 countries and coordinates every other airport through vetted partner agents. Operations desk: OPS@LFS.AERO.

Long — company profile

Location Flight Services (LFS) is a global aviation trip support and flight dispatch provider serving business aviation, cargo, charter, government, humanitarian and air-ambulance operators. The company's 24/7 operations desk plans and files ATC flight plans, secures overflight, landing and diplomatic permits, arranges airport slots and PPR, sources Jet A-1 and into-plane services, and coordinates ground handling, crew and passenger logistics.

LFS combines directly operated stations — where LFS staff meet the aircraft on the ramp — with a worldwide network of vetted handling agents, so an operator can file a single trip request for any airport on earth and receive one point of contact, one coordinator and one file.

Directly operated stations span the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, Europe and India. Requests sent to OPS@LFS.AERO are acknowledged by a duty controller, not an autoresponder.

Directly operated stations

29 stations · 14 countries

LFS staff are on the ground at these airports. Every other airport worldwide is served through vetted partner agents under LFS coordination — please word it that way rather than describing all of them as LFS bases.

Arabian Gulf

  • OBBI/BAH · Manama
  • OKKK/KWI · Kuwait City
  • OMAD/AZI · Abu Dhabi
  • OMAL/AAN · Al Ain
  • OOSA/SLL · Salalah

Saudi Arabia

  • OERK/RUH · Riyadh
  • OEJN/JED · Jeddah
  • OEMA/MED · Medina
  • OEDF/DMM · Dammam

Levant

  • OJAM/ADJ · Amman
  • OJAI/AMM · Amman
  • OJAQ/AQJ · Aqaba

Egypt

  • HECA/CAI · Cairo
  • HESH/SSH · Sharm El Sheikh
  • HEGN/HRG · Hurghada
  • HEAL/DBB · El Alamein

North Africa

  • GMME/RBA · Rabat
  • GMMX/RAK · Marrakesh

Europe

  • LFPB/LBG · Paris
  • LFMN/NCE · Nice
  • LIRA/CIA · Rome
  • LIML/LIN · Milan
  • LEMD/MAD · Madrid
  • LEBL/BCN · Barcelona
  • LMML/MLA · Valletta
  • BIKF/KEF · Reykjavík

India

  • VIDP/DEL · Delhi
  • VABB/BOM · Mumbai
  • VOCL/CCJ · Kozhikode

Logo & image files

Free to use in editorial coverage of LFS. Do not recolour, stretch or place the mark on a busy background. The company name is written “LFS” or “Location Flight Services” — not “L.F.S.”.

Story angles & expert comment

LFS duty controllers and permit officers are available for interview, background briefing or quoted comment on the topics below. We can usually turn a written comment around the same working day.

Permit lead times across the Middle East

How overflight, landing and diplomatic clearance lead times differ country by country, and what actually delays a clearance in practice.

Background

Handling outsized and cargo aircraft

What an An-124 or a wide-body freighter needs on a stand that normally sees business jets: equipment, slot pressure and turnaround realities.

Background

Trip support for humanitarian and medevac missions

How short-notice relief and air-ambulance flights are cleared, fuelled and handled when the destination has no scheduled service.

Background

Operated stations vs. agent networks

The operational difference between a trip support company with its own ramp teams and one that brokers every station.

Background

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