Directflight Limited
Registered name: DIRECTFLIGHT LIMITED
Directflight Limited made £7.3m revenue and £935k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Directflight Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £7.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £935k profit and 49 employees. The company is classified under “other professional, scientific and technical activities” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, South East
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1983
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £6.3m | £7.3m |
| Cost of sales | −£1m | −£1.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £6.1m |
| Operating profit | £597k | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £595k | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £463k | £935k |
| Profit (best available) | £463k | £935k |
| Employees (average) | 49 | 49 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 7.3% | 12.9% |
| Gross margin | 83.9% | 84.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £129k | £148k |
| Profit per employee | £9.4k | £19.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲102.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 84.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £148k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 49
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Hebridean Air Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
- Airtask Group Limited 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £935k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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