VOLGA-DNEPR RUSHES HUMANITARIAN AID TO REFUGEES IN IRAQ

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian supplies from Zurich, Switzerland, to Erbil International Airport for victims of the civil unrest in Iraq.

The airline’s IL-76TD-90VD freighter carried 905 tents, 6,000 blankets and mattresses, and 600 kitchen sets for refugee camps in the region. The flight was contracted by one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ logistics partners, Air Charter Service.

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has been supporting humanitarian and peacekeeping missions for more than 20 years. Over this period, it has transported more than 68,000 tons of humanitarian cargo to 93 countries onboard 1,072 flights operated by its unique An-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD freighter fleet.

In 2002, Volga-Dnepr Airlines transported a hospital and medical equipment to Congo as part of a United Nations’ peacekeeping mission. In the same year, Volga-Dnepr Airlines became the first civil company to begin humanitarian flights to Afghanistan under the UN programme.

Volga-Dnepr’s urgent aid missions around the world have also included the delivery of relief goods for victims of the devastating tsunami in South-East Asia (2004), Hurricane Katrina in the USA (2005), the eruption of the Chaiten Volcano in Chile (2008), and earthquakes in Haiti (2010) and Turkey (2011). In 2011, after the devastating earthquake in Japan, one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 aircraft delivered a special medical vehicle for ophthalmic disease diagnostics and treatment to the Japanese city of Sendai. This flight was operated as a charitable action by Volga-Dnepr Group.  

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