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Top 25 Air freight carriers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 943 air freight carriers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 28,110 professional contacts across them, including 6,353 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers air freight carriers headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest air freight carriers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 13,836 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 959 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Air Charter Service (ACS) is an aircraft charter company that arranges passenger and cargo aircraft charters worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 672 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Five airlines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Davies Turner - Your worldwide Freight and Logistics partner As an International Freight Forwarder, Davies Turner can arrange to move your cargo to any International destination…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Metro power the supply chains of leading global brands and manufacturers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DHL Air UK Ltd is the largest all-cargo air carrier in the UK, operating a fleet of B757, B767 and aircraft supporting worldwide air-freight operations for DHL Express.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Air Menzies International (AMI) was established in 1976 to provide wholesale Airfreight and Express services to forwarders, customs brokers, and courier agents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mentfield Logistics Group provides international freight forwarding, shipping, warehousing, customs brokerage and customs clearance, including all relevant logistic services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simarco is one of the UK’s leading independent freight groups with a proud heritage spanning 3 decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XDP was formed in 1995 and has since grown to be the largest privately owned parcel and freight network in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Priority Freight is a leading time-critical logistics specialist, helping our clients to meet complex and urgent transport challenges by adding speed and flexibility to their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us: With its unique fleet of iconic Airbus A340 long-haul aircraft, and offering a fast, professional service, European Cargo has helped to establish Bournemouth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UCH Logistics is a dynamic, customer focused provider of specialist transport services to the airfreight industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quality Freight Services Limited - Global Freight Forwarding Specialists” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One Air is a UK-based cargo airline operating a fleet of 3 Boeing 747 freighters and 2 Boeing freighters, providing reliable air cargo services to global clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AGI Global Logistics are an international freight forwarding company, with a goal of supplying our customers with the most personal, flexible, seamless and competitive product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CCL is a specialist gateway logistics service provider handling all aspects of importation and exportation, gateway customs clearance and compliance, warehousing, break bulk and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ALPI UK is part of the Albini & Pitigliani Group, an international freight forwarding and logistics organisation with over 80 years of experience delivering supply chain solutions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Norsk Global: Delivering the World!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over the last 20 years Goldstar has grown to become one of the most trustworthy haulage companies in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Having recently celebrated our 30th Anniversary KRL is an established nationwide and worldwide company with growing teams and offices being able to provide multi-modal freight…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Meachers Global Logistics is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of international freight and transport logistics services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Uniexpress is one of the UK’s largest independently owned freight forwarders, providing reliable global logistics solutions across sea, air and road, supported by comprehensive UK…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We power airline commercial performance in 60+ countries, utilising a proven model to deliver market growth and measurable results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edge Worldwide Logistics (EWL) was formerly known as A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: air freight carriers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names air freight carriers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of air freight carriers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name air freight carriers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Air freight carriers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 943 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among air freight carriers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “air freight carriers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names air freight carriers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among air freight carriers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,353 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names air freight carriers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many air freight carriers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 943 air freight carriers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Menzies Aviation, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most air freight carriers?
London leads with 126 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (43) and Birmingham (22).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,353 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 943 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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