Aircraft charter company plays vital role in sending aid to Turkish earthquake victims

领先的包机公司, 包机服务, has arranged multiple passenger 和 cargo aircraft charters into 火鸡 和 叙利亚 to transport search 和 rescue teams from around Europe, along with essential humanitarian aid for the victims of the devastating earthquakes earlier this week. The first of its flights arrived on Tuesday morning 从西班牙 和 the UK government’s arrived later that day.

Early on the morning of Monday 6th February an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck southern 火鸡, near the city of Gaziantep, close to the 火鸡-叙利亚 border. Just a few hours later a second tremor, measuring 7.5 struck the country, only 80 miles north of the first. Both earthquakes caused widespread damage 和 have so far between them claimed more than 19,000人的生命.

本Dinsdale, Director for 政府 和 Humanitarian Services at ACS, said of the situation: “We started receiving calls from both governments 和 NGOs later in the morning last Monday. Following some research we ascertained that Gaziantep Airport – closest to the epicentre – was fortunately, 仍然功能齐全. 这对搜救队来说是理想的选择, but that meant that it would become exceptionally busy very quickly 和, 装载设备有限, 这难道不是我们租货的最佳选择吗. 亚达那, 然而, had more room as well as a highloader available 和 Damascus in 叙利亚 also had good availability of loading equipment.

“By Tuesday morning we had our first representative on the ground at Gaziantep Airport overseeing the arrival of our first flight – a chartered Airbus A330-200 from 德国, 船上有一支搜救队. Later in the day the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development 办公室’s first search 和 rescue team, 包括狗, to the affected areas arrived on board another Airbus A330-200, 这艘船的船舱里也装载着重要的货物.

“So far we have had several aircraft l和 in Gaziantep with search 和 rescue teams from around Europe. Towards the end of last week we started flying in cargo charters, 第一个到达了阿达纳, 从西班牙, on Thursday on a Boeing B747-400 carrying an entire field hospital. Since then we have arranged multiple charters on aircraft including IL-76, B737, B747, B757和B777飞往阿达纳和大马士革, 以及印吉利克空军基地各一架, 在土耳其和阿勒颇, 叙利亚.

“Having someone on the ground in Gaziantep so soon after the initial earthquake was a huge help in coordinating the passenger charters we have had going in. He had to sleep at the airport itself 和 was available to assist with all our flights at any hour of the day. With many of the cargo flights now going into 亚达那, we now also flown someone in to oversee everything there.”