Sentences with phrase «relief flights»

For the emergency hurricane relief flights the cost is much higher.

To ensure as many customers as possible could escape the areas in Irma's path the airline laid on five relief flights as well as chartering four flights from Caribbean airline, Liat, to connect customers in St. Kitts and Turks & Caicos with British Airways flights.

United Airlines — United has donated $ 1.1 million between cash contributions, food and amenity donations and value of relief flights.

Through relief flights, the transportation of emergency supplies, airline employee volunteer efforts and fundraising programs facilitated through airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurricanes.

Relief efforts, coordinated by the National office of Disaster Services along with the Red Cross, have started in earnest with multiple relief flights and vessels landing on Barbuda today.

This special relief flight is part of the company's FedEx Cares initiative, through which FedEx will invest $ 200 million in more than 200 global communities by 2020 to create opportunities and deliver positive change around the world.

We will be continuing daily Harvey and Irma relief flights for as long as we are needed.

The airlines continue to operate relief flights to get people back to Australia as soon as possible.

Gratitude was also relayed to JetBlue Airways and United Airlines for performing similar relief flights.

«Our teams worked around the clock to re-organise flight schedules and relief flights, liaise with the nine airports affected, position aircraft and crew around the region, provide thousands of meals for flights at very short notice and resolve the travel plans of at least 10,000 customers.