Apart from relief efforts done by the aircrafts of AirIndia, this one is more humane.
Air-India Employees to Contribute One Day's Salary for Relief
Air-India employees will contribute one-day’s salary, including Productivity Linked Incentive, to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund in the wake of the tragedy caused by Tsunami floods in the Southern States of the country.
Aviation in the tsunami disaster area
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Air Canada announced it would fly two planeloads of food, cooking utensils, clothing and drugs to Indonesia free of charge. The airline also said its flight attendants on Saturday would begin handing out Red Cross donation envelopes on flights across its entire network.
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Boeing donates $1 million for tsunami relief
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/200 ... 41230.html
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Shell response to Tsunami disaster in Asia
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http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/200 ... 41230.html
And
Shell response to Tsunami disaster in Asia
http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?sit ... z_lhn.html
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SriLankan Airlines
National carrier SriLankan Airlines is waiving off ground handling charges on all relief cargo that arrive at the Bandaranaike International Airport.
SriLankan Airlines, which has a monopoly on ground handling through its privatisation agreement with Dubai's Emirates Airlines, has often been accused of having one of the most expensive charges in the region.
The airline is now working round the clock, providing free carriage, to clear a huge backlog of relief cargo from Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai and London.
Recognising the sometimes still lengthy process faced by the international aid workers in getting their supplies and equipment cleared through customs, the airline has established a 24 hour cafeteria at the airport's cargo warehouse.
SriLankan Airlines, which has a monopoly on ground handling through its privatisation agreement with Dubai's Emirates Airlines, has often been accused of having one of the most expensive charges in the region.
The airline is now working round the clock, providing free carriage, to clear a huge backlog of relief cargo from Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai and London.
Recognising the sometimes still lengthy process faced by the international aid workers in getting their supplies and equipment cleared through customs, the airline has established a 24 hour cafeteria at the airport's cargo warehouse.
Malaysia Airlines Cargo and Transmile
Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn Bhd (Maskargo) and Transmile Group Bhd have volunteered to deliver humanitarian aid to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Transmile is utilising its Boeing 737 and 727 freighters to deliver the items to Banda Aceh, Colombo, and Phuket.
Maskargo’s first relief flight left for Male in Maldives yesterday followed by Jakarta and Medan in Indonesia today. Another flight to Colombo is scheduled for tomorrow.
Transmile, which delivered the first batch of aid to Phuket three days ago, flew to Colombo today with items collected by the Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields.
Organisations that need help to airlift humanitarian aid can contact Transmile's Ms Lee Sok Khoon (016-2018006) and Mr Palaraman (012-2076980).
Malaysia Airlines can be contacted at its corporate communications department at 03-21655283/6/7/8/9/61.
Transmile is utilising its Boeing 737 and 727 freighters to deliver the items to Banda Aceh, Colombo, and Phuket.
Maskargo’s first relief flight left for Male in Maldives yesterday followed by Jakarta and Medan in Indonesia today. Another flight to Colombo is scheduled for tomorrow.
Transmile, which delivered the first batch of aid to Phuket three days ago, flew to Colombo today with items collected by the Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields.
Organisations that need help to airlift humanitarian aid can contact Transmile's Ms Lee Sok Khoon (016-2018006) and Mr Palaraman (012-2076980).
Malaysia Airlines can be contacted at its corporate communications department at 03-21655283/6/7/8/9/61.
Malaysia Airlines believes
Flag carrier Malaysia Airlines said Saturday it believed the tsunami disaster would not severely affect travel demand in the region.
"We believe that the recent tsunami disaster will not severely impact overall travel demand," the Malaysia Airlines managing director Ahmad Fuaad Dahalan said.
"We are confident the tourism industry will recover in the short term as various governments and the international community are working together and focused on rebuilding the affected territories."
They believe, we hope. Amen
Inch Allah, Mr Dahalan.
"We believe that the recent tsunami disaster will not severely impact overall travel demand," the Malaysia Airlines managing director Ahmad Fuaad Dahalan said.
"We are confident the tourism industry will recover in the short term as various governments and the international community are working together and focused on rebuilding the affected territories."
They believe, we hope. Amen
Inch Allah, Mr Dahalan.
Dragonair
Dragonair flew a full load of relief supplies from the Hong Kong Government to Phuket Saturday 1, January, on board an Airbus A321. The airline is waiving all fees for the shipment, which included surgical gloves and masks.
“We at Dragonair are doing what we can to facilitate this with the resources available,” said Stanley Hui, Chief Executive Officer of Dragonair. “We have contacted several major relief organisations and have offered to fly supplies for free to Phuket, if necessary.”
Dragonair announced it was waiving fees for those travellers on Phuket who wished to come back home early, and for travellers in Hong Kong who wanted to cancel their trip to the island.
Dragonair is also continuing to operate flights to Phuket to facilitate travel for those wishing to return to Hong Kong, and for those travelling to the island to trace family members.
The airline’s A321s can carry up to 2.8 tonnes of cargo.
“We at Dragonair are doing what we can to facilitate this with the resources available,” said Stanley Hui, Chief Executive Officer of Dragonair. “We have contacted several major relief organisations and have offered to fly supplies for free to Phuket, if necessary.”
Dragonair announced it was waiving fees for those travellers on Phuket who wished to come back home early, and for travellers in Hong Kong who wanted to cancel their trip to the island.
Dragonair is also continuing to operate flights to Phuket to facilitate travel for those wishing to return to Hong Kong, and for those travelling to the island to trace family members.
The airline’s A321s can carry up to 2.8 tonnes of cargo.
Finnair continues its emergency air bridge.
Finnair is continuing to operate its emergency air bridge between Phuket in Thailand and Finland, evacuating thousands of Finnish tourists from the Tsunami disaster-stricken area over the New Year period.
The first evacuation flight departed in response to the tsunami floods on Sunday, December 26 to Phuket, taking a medical team to the area. The first flight from the crisis area returned to Helsinki on the evening of Monday, December 27. Later flights transported medical teams from the Finnish Red Cross and tour operator representatives.
Eleven emergency shuttle flights were operated to Finland this week, with a total capacity of 2,382 seats. As of Friday, December 31, more than 1,800 passengers had been evacuated on eight flights from Phuket and Sri Lanka. In addition, more than a hundred individuals, including Finns, Swedes and Norwegians, were evacuated through Bangkok on Finnair's scheduled flights to Helsinki.
Evacuation flight arrivals from Phuket were due at 9.55 on January 1, 2005 (AY1964), at 7.20 on January 2, 2005 (AY1962).
Finnair said it is prepared to continue with further emergency evacuation flights as and when necessary.
The first evacuation flight departed in response to the tsunami floods on Sunday, December 26 to Phuket, taking a medical team to the area. The first flight from the crisis area returned to Helsinki on the evening of Monday, December 27. Later flights transported medical teams from the Finnish Red Cross and tour operator representatives.
Eleven emergency shuttle flights were operated to Finland this week, with a total capacity of 2,382 seats. As of Friday, December 31, more than 1,800 passengers had been evacuated on eight flights from Phuket and Sri Lanka. In addition, more than a hundred individuals, including Finns, Swedes and Norwegians, were evacuated through Bangkok on Finnair's scheduled flights to Helsinki.
Evacuation flight arrivals from Phuket were due at 9.55 on January 1, 2005 (AY1964), at 7.20 on January 2, 2005 (AY1962).
Finnair said it is prepared to continue with further emergency evacuation flights as and when necessary.
British Airways added an extra jumbo
British Airways added an extra jumbo jet flight from Bangkok to London Heathrow on Saturday January 1 to help bring back home people stranded by the disaster in south east Asia.
The aircraft left Bangkok on Saturday January 1 at 10am
A medical support team from British Airways health services department was flown to Thailand to help passengers at Bangkok airport before the extra flight.
Throughout the month of January British Airways will give all customer and staff donations to its Change for Good programme in partnership with UNICEF for relief support aimed specifically at helping those affected by the disaster.
The airline anticipates that the donations collected on its global fleet of aircraft during the next month to UNICEF will be up to £500,000.
The aircraft left Bangkok on Saturday January 1 at 10am
A medical support team from British Airways health services department was flown to Thailand to help passengers at Bangkok airport before the extra flight.
Throughout the month of January British Airways will give all customer and staff donations to its Change for Good programme in partnership with UNICEF for relief support aimed specifically at helping those affected by the disaster.
The airline anticipates that the donations collected on its global fleet of aircraft during the next month to UNICEF will be up to £500,000.
Valuable contributions, thanks.
Compared to the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln,
this is nothing in news terms although in the end, all
these news strands you're pulling together will most
certainly amount to more.
Some news org should pull together the complete role of
aviation in this massive relief program and tell it in the
way we have come to understand, e.g., the Berlin Airlift.
Further, NYT makes it clear this program presents massive
logistics problems, some of which you've captured in your
posts:
Compared to the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln,
this is nothing in news terms although in the end, all
these news strands you're pulling together will most
certainly amount to more.
Some news org should pull together the complete role of
aviation in this massive relief program and tell it in the
way we have come to understand, e.g., the Berlin Airlift.
Further, NYT makes it clear this program presents massive
logistics problems, some of which you've captured in your
posts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/inter ... tions.htmlWith $2 Billion Donated, U.N. Now Needs Help to Deliver Aid
By WARREN HOGE
Published: January 2, 2005
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 1 - Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, said Saturday that the commitment of relief money from more than 40 nations had reached $2 billion, but he said that the scale of the response was overwhelming the capacity to deliver aid.
"The compassion has never ever been like this," he said, but then added, "The military and civil defense assets that many countries are providing us are as valuable as cash or gold would be today because it makes us move with the assistance and it makes us get there in the race against the clock."
Mr. Egeland said the food and medical relief that was arriving in thousands of shipments was running into "logistical constraints" caused by overloaded airports and other bottlenecks. He gave a list of equipment needs drawn up in a telephone conference meeting on Friday with representatives of the United States-led core group of nations that also includes Australia, India and Japan.
Those needs included helicopters and ships able to carry them, air-traffic-control units, landing craft, trucks, cargo planes, base camps for the aid workers, fuel storage and water treatment units, generators and medical kits.
Helicopters
It's good to see that helicopters are finally reaching the most devastated areas in Aceh, Sumatra. The problem has been getting the food, water, and medical help in where it is wanted most, when roads and airfields are unusable.
An Antonov freighter has airlifted some Australian helicopters to Bandar Aceh, and helicopters from American aircraft carriers are also being used.
Perhaps the most sensible use of the available sirlift back to the bases would be to evacuate survivors as there is no chance of being able to deal with their problems on site quickly enough to save lives.
rerj37
An Antonov freighter has airlifted some Australian helicopters to Bandar Aceh, and helicopters from American aircraft carriers are also being used.
Perhaps the most sensible use of the available sirlift back to the bases would be to evacuate survivors as there is no chance of being able to deal with their problems on site quickly enough to save lives.
rerj37
I hear on CBC radio this morning that there are a lot of Indos who
are perfectly capable of helping standing around with their hands in their
pockets. People who have gone in to help cannot understand this
phenomenon - whether it is shock or a cultural thing. Here, we're even
talking qualified medical people so far as I can recall this radio report.
There are a couple of Antonovs stationed in Western Australia, yes?
Where are the Western Australia Il-76s?
I hear the aid is being lifted into Jakarta, far from the scene, as
there is no more room at the closest airports.
are perfectly capable of helping standing around with their hands in their
pockets. People who have gone in to help cannot understand this
phenomenon - whether it is shock or a cultural thing. Here, we're even
talking qualified medical people so far as I can recall this radio report.
There are a couple of Antonovs stationed in Western Australia, yes?
Where are the Western Australia Il-76s?
I hear the aid is being lifted into Jakarta, far from the scene, as
there is no more room at the closest airports.
Russian plane brings 2 Japanese helicopters to Thailand
02.01.2005, 10.09
TOKYO, January 2 (Itar-Tass) – A Russian transport plane An-124 Ruslan delivered two Japanese helicopters to the Phuket Island of Thailand, which was hit by the devastating tsunami. They will take part in humanitarian operations for the transportation of food, drinkable water and mobile power generators to the far-away Thai islands.
Thirty Japanese pilots and technicians have already come to Thailand specially for operating the helicopters, which belong to the fire stations of Tokyo and Osaka.
02.01.2005, 10.09
TOKYO, January 2 (Itar-Tass) – A Russian transport plane An-124 Ruslan delivered two Japanese helicopters to the Phuket Island of Thailand, which was hit by the devastating tsunami. They will take part in humanitarian operations for the transportation of food, drinkable water and mobile power generators to the far-away Thai islands.
Thirty Japanese pilots and technicians have already come to Thailand specially for operating the helicopters, which belong to the fire stations of Tokyo and Osaka.
The IAF relief operation
[India News]: New Delhi, Jan 2 : The Indian Air Force (IAF) has
mounted one of its largest operations in peacetime to provide
succour to victims of the tsunami in the region, with dozens of
aircraft carrying over 5,000 tonnes of relief materials in the past
week.
The IAF has rescued and airlifted over 5,000 people from tsunami-
affected areas of south India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as
part of "Operation Sea Wave", its codename for the relief operation,
a spokesman said Sunday.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?a ... s&id=53891
[India News]: New Delhi, Jan 2 : The Indian Air Force (IAF) has
mounted one of its largest operations in peacetime to provide
succour to victims of the tsunami in the region, with dozens of
aircraft carrying over 5,000 tonnes of relief materials in the past
week.
The IAF has rescued and airlifted over 5,000 people from tsunami-
affected areas of south India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as
part of "Operation Sea Wave", its codename for the relief operation,
a spokesman said Sunday.
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?a ... s&id=53891
Canada to double aid; lease mighty Antonovs:
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryhe ... 9369c61f88[/quote]Canadian Forces planners have been quietly arranging to rent one or more Russian Antonov cargo aircraft to get the team and its equipment -- including a water purification plant, field hospital and engineering vehicles -- into one of the countries hit by the tsunami.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdes ... 39ac3f.htmMassive UNHCR airlift gets underway for tsunami victims
02 Jan 2005 15:52:10 GMT
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, Jan. 2 (UNHCR) – A giant Antonov 124 cargo plane loaded with 100 tonnes of relief supplies left Denmark early Sunday to spearhead a massive UNHCR airlift operation aimed at providing vital aid to 100,000 people in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province. In all, the three-day airlift operation will deliver 400 tonnes of aid from UNHCR stockpiles in Denmark and Dubai.
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Contacting Individuals in Thailand
The Ministry of Information and Radio Thailand have established English-language
information lines at 66-2-275-8626, 66-2-275-8627, and 66-2-276-8883 (02-275-8626,
02-275-8627, and 02-276-8883 from within Thailand).
Thai Government English-language Call Center can be reached at 66-1-643-2755 or
66-76-214-492 (076-214-492 or 01-643-2755 from within Thailand). The numbers for
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 24-hour coordinating center for foreign nationals
are 66-2-643-5262 and 66-2-643-5000 ext. 5003 and 5502 (02-643-5262 and
02-643-5000 ext. 5003 and 5502 from within Thailand). The Phuket Tourist Police
number is 66-76-355-015 (076-355-015 from within Thailand).
The Ministry of Information and Radio Thailand have established English-language
information lines at 66-2-275-8626, 66-2-275-8627, and 66-2-276-8883 (02-275-8626,
02-275-8627, and 02-276-8883 from within Thailand).
Thai Government English-language Call Center can be reached at 66-1-643-2755 or
66-76-214-492 (076-214-492 or 01-643-2755 from within Thailand). The numbers for
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 24-hour coordinating center for foreign nationals
are 66-2-643-5262 and 66-2-643-5000 ext. 5003 and 5502 (02-643-5262 and
02-643-5000 ext. 5003 and 5502 from within Thailand). The Phuket Tourist Police
number is 66-76-355-015 (076-355-015 from within Thailand).
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