Civilian planes to the rescue in Afghanistan

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After the well-known events that occurred in Afghanistan, Dozens of civilian planes have come to the rescue of nationals and foreigners to this country. Press photo United

Aviation continues to demonstrate its importance to the world in the face of natural events, pandemics and even situations of political and war conflicts, As we saw recently with a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III carrying about 900 people in their warehouses.

With the complex situation in Afghanistan, The governments of the world have had to mobilize and count on the support of military fleets as logical actors in the situation, but also civil aircraft to accelerate the process of rescuing people from Kabul.

In this entry, we will review the airlines who have put their contingent to meet the objective of evacuating the greatest number of people until the 31 august 2021 as deadline.

Civilian planes evacuating in Afghanistan

It should be noted first of all that not all civil aircraft have flown directly to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul for security reasons., but many have done so to neighboring countries or bases in Europe.

USA

Without a doubt, it has been the country that has provided the largest civilian contingent for evacuation tasks with the CRAF or Civil Reserve Air Fleet program, which is a National Emergency Preparedness Program designed to increase air transport capacity to meet the interests national security and contingency requirements.

Under CRAF, commercial carriers retain their filing status under FAA regulations, while USTRANSCOM exercises mission control through its air component of the Air Mobility Command.

In this way, ten airlines have made available a total of 20 planes (could be more according to needs) widebody for mission:

• American Airlines (3)
• Eastern Airlines (2)
• Atlas Air (3)
• Delta Air Lines (3)
• Hawaiian Airlines (2)
• Omni Air International (3)
• United Airlines (4)
• GlobalX
• National Airlines
• Sun Country

Rest of the world

Equally, Flight Radar 24 made a list of all civil airlines that have carried out at least one evacuation mission with various types of aircraft from Boeing 737 hasta Airbus A330:

• Air Belgium
• Air Europa
• Air India
• United Kingdom Air Tanker
• Ethiopian Airlines
• Condor
• Freebird Airlines
• HiFly
• Jordan Aviation
• Kam Air
• ClassJet
• LOT
• PIA
• Qatar Airways
• SAS
• Star East
• Tarom
• Turkish Airlines
• Let's go
• Danish Air Transport
• Atlantic Airways
• Finnair
• Gullivair
• Lufthansa
• Neos
• Privilege Style
• Smartwings
• Swiss
• Titan Airways
• Utair
• Uzbekistan Airways
• World2Fly
• KLM
• TUI
• Corendor
• Africa Charter Airline
• Classy
• Luke Air

Other airlines may have participated and will be updated as new information becomes available..

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