15 May 2023: As the leaders in global sports aircraft charterings, we are always providing charters to and from major football tournaments across the world. We are also constantly busy supporting world-renowned football teams during the tournament breaks too.

In the midst of the international FIFA World Cup break last year, we chartered a Saab 2000 aircraft for a high-profile Spanish team in LaLiga, who were playing a friendly against a Premier League side. The Spanish team contacted Smart to provide a cost effective solution to fly the team to London.

After the success of this trip last year, we have gone on to fly the team a number of times domestically within Spain, once again proving we can charter aircraft all around the world from our Crawley HQ.

Mark Hawkins, Smart Aviation’s Managing Director, said: “We are thrilled that our first charter for this Spanish football club went so well that the club now uses us for all their travel requirements. They came to us seeking the ‘Smart solution’, which wouldn’t have been possible without our excellent buying power in Europe”.                 

Smart Aviation was founded in 2005 by Managing Director Mark Hawkins, an established sports charter specialist with over 30 years’ experience in senior operational roles within the travel and aviation industry, including managing sports charters at Excel Airways. Over the last 18 years, Mark has led Smart Aviation to become the leaders in global sports chartering. Mark is still very active in sports chartering, frequently providing air travel for global sports teams to key sporting fixtures including Champions League and Premier League football matches, as well as to ice-hockey, boxing, basketball, golf, motorsport and cricket tournaments.

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