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Aviation News Item: 04189
20th Jan 2010
Air Partner Arranges Relief Flights to Haiti
Source: fly-corporate.com
 Air Partner offices worldwide have come to the aid of earthquake-stricken Haiti, arranging a number of humanitarian aid relief flights carrying vital cargo, medical personnel and support workers.
The company will fly some 38.5 tonnes of supplies to the country, departing from Brindisi Airport in Italy. Its UK-based freight team arranged for a commercial MD-11 aircraft to transport kitchen sets, generators, water tanks, blankets, tents, plastic rolls, latrines, trauma kits, energy biscuits and emergency health kits to support relief efforts after the recent devastation.
As this is a transatlantic operation, Air Partner chose to work with a carrier that will be able to leave Port-au-Prince airport as quickly as possible after delivery of the cargo in order to meet flight crew duty time rules. Speed of departure is also necessary to make room for other relief flights using the airport, where facilities are not fully functional.
Air Partner in Florida has also been busy organising, on behalf of a US development bank, a series of flights on a BAE Jetstream 31 regional aircraft, carrying doctors and medical supplies between Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and Port-au-Prince. It also dispatched a freight flight yesterday from Miami to Santo Domingo carrying generators and broadcast equipment for a relief organisation.
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