Airlink, Inc.

We truly appreciate your support, American Airlines! These miles will play a crucial role in getting responders to those in urgent need. ✈️ #HurricaneHelene

🎓📍 Since 2019, we’re proud to have facilitated six Airlink #LogisticsPreparedness Workshops, training 151 staff members from 78 humanitarian and disaster response organizations. Yesterday, we were thrilled to kick off our 2024 Middle East and North Africa Workshop in Cairo, #Egypt, led by Airlink’s Yasmine Eldaief, Bethany Holland, and Ashley Bustillo. Over the coming few days, we're honored to have 43 representatives from our NGO and logistics partner network joining us as we collectively reflect on past responses, address logistical challenges in ongoing crises, and gather valuable insights for future preparedness and innovative response strategies in the region. We’re excited to equally learn from all our participants and thank them for traveling to Cairo to join us! These workshops are made possible by the generous support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. #DisasterResponse #HumanitarianAid #AnticipatoryAction #MENA #Aviation #Logistics #SupplyChain #HumanitarianLogistics

⏳ When disaster strikes, every second matters. Four days after the landfall of #HurricaneHelene, Airlink has sponsored airlift for 35 responders from eight nonprofit partners to swiftly help impacted communities. They're providing hot meals, critically needed fuel, support to ensure children feel safe, and so much more. Humanitarian needs in multiple states are immense and many more responders are being called to help. You can help us get them there. Why is Airlink essential right now? The high cost of airfare can prevent organizations from reaching those in need, especially as many of our North American partners are simultaneously focused on long-term recovery from other recent hurricanes while we're in peak hurricane season. Let’s ensure that transportation isn’t a barrier for them to provide vital assistance on the ground. Please consider donating to our response: https://lnkd.in/eF4ATBBu Thank you for your support. 📸 Operation BBQ Relief, Fuel Relief Fund, and Project:Camp 🛫 Airlink's Helene Airline Partners: United Airlines and American Airlines

🚨 Update on the Sudan emergency Last Thursday, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, airlifted 50 tons of essential supplies from our global stockpile in Dubai to #Chad for further distribution inside Sudan in response to the ongoing crisis. 📦These emergency relief items are expected to meet the humanitarian needs of more than 65,000 Sudanese refugees. We are deeply thankful to Airbus Foundation and Airlink, Inc. for their timely logistical support and for bringing together the aviation and logistics partners involved. Thank you to the World Food Programme-led Logistics Cluster for its generous support in facilitating this airlift on such short notice. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/d__G644V WFP Supply Chain UNHCR GCC مفوضية اللاجئين في دول الخليج #HumanitarianAid #SupplyChain #withrefugees #sudan

🚨 RESPONDING: Hurricane Helene is rapidly approaching Florida's Big Bend, expected to make landfall this evening as a Category 4 storm. Airlink is already mobilizing responders to ensure our nonprofit partners are prepared to act. This storm is set to impact areas still recovering from Hurricanes Idalia and Debby. Parts of Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee are under Tropical Storm Warning as well. Airlink-sponsored relief personnel will provide critical support, including muck-and-gut services, tree clearing, cleanup, tarping, temporary shelters, and the distribution of essential items. You can make a difference. ⬇️ Please donate now to help fund vital flights for responders from CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), Inspiritus, Minuteman Disaster Response, and more organizations to ensure they can reach those in need. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eF4ATBBu Thank you to United Airlines and American Airlines for helping us kick off this response. #HurricaneHelene #AtlanticHurricaneSeason #DisasterResponse

We are incredibly grateful to Airlink, Inc. for their continued support and their generous donation of airline tickets for Veterans Without Orders’ upcoming mission to Uganda! ✈️🌍💧 Our partnership with Airlink began 6 years ago, and throughout this time, their support has been invaluable in helping us reduce logistical barriers, enabling us to focus on empowering communities with clean water and healthcare. Thanks to Airlink, we can continue our vital work addressing the public health crisis of drug-resistant malaria and providing sustainable water solutions. This mission, initiated by an invitation from the Ministry of Health, is a significant step forward, and we’re able to carry it out because of partners like Airlink. Thank you, Airlink, for your ongoing commitment to helping us make a meaningful impact. #ThankYou #Airlink #VWO #SSgtKendallIvyII #PublicHealth #Veterans #CleanWaterForAll

Since its inception in 1994, the ISTAT Foundation has been a driving force in the commercial aviation sector. One landmark example is the establishment of Airlink, Inc., which has evolved into a thriving global humanitarian organization delivering critical aid to communities in crisis. Hear from C.N.(Pete) Seidlitz, founder and president of Bristol Associates, Inc. and the ISTAT Foundation's first Chair, about how early initiatives, like the creation of Airlink, demonstrate the Foundation's true impact over the years. The Foundation looks forward to welcoming Airlink to ISTAT EMEA, 22-24 September, in Istanbul, to deliver an update on its humanitarian relief efforts in Turkey. Be a force for good in the aviation industry and donate to the ISTAT Foundation during our 30th anniversary: https://lnkd.in/g8zJpQvH #ISTATCares #ISTATGivesBack #ISTATFoundationTurns30

Join Airlink’s Sandra Walter and Airlink Ambassador Andrea Wilson at the ISTAT EMEA conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, from September 22-24. We invite you to our session on Tuesday the 24th, where Sandra will share the latest updates from Airlink, celebrate the ISTAT Foundation’s 30th anniversary and their generous support, and provide an overview of our response to the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes. We hope to see you there! #ISTATCares #ISTATFoundation #ISTATEMEA #ISTATEvents

NEWS: Airlink is proud to announce Amadeus as our newest sponsor. As a leader in the global travel and tourism technology sector, Amadeus shares our commitment to harnessing travel and aviation as a force for good. We are thrilled to become a global partner in Amadeus' Community Impact Program and Amadeus’ sponsorship will help ensure that life-saving aid reaches communities around the world that need it most. Together, we can transform lives and make a meaningful difference. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eC3VbHxZ #MakeADifference #TravelForGood

The CAPA Airline Leader Summit Australia helps me connect with the carriers that help Airlink, Inc. deliver aid to the Pacific Islands. Brisbane is an important staging point for our deployments into the region. This region faces challenges rooted in their remoteness, cyclones and earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. This was clear when Vanuatu’s 83 islands withstood two cyclones and an earthquake in March 2023, affecting 250,000 people, or 80% of its population, devastating 40% of its GDP. Vanuatu was again hit with Cyclone Lola in October, the strongest off-season cyclone in the southern hemisphere. Back in January 2022, the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano was the largest recorded eruption since Krakatoa in 1883. It created tsunamis as high as 65 feet and as far as Japan and New Zealand, and an ash plume exceeding 57 kilometres (36 miles) that radiated 260 km in diameter. An undersea cable connecting Tonga to the outside world severed. An unprecedented 150 million tons of water vapour was violently thrust into the atmosphere. Back in 2022, there were forecasts of an El Niño. It was short-lived, partly due to the atmospheric impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption. Airlink is still responding to the recovery there, sending supplies on behalf of Australian NGOs last week. David Tohi, secretary-general of the Association of South Pacific Airlines, said the Pacific Islands cover 1/3 of the sea surface and feature small populations living across vast distances served by long, thin routes. While tourists have visions of swaying coconut palms and fresh lemons, blue skies and epic surf, the populace faces constant environmental challenges such as seasonal cyclones and unpredictable earthquakes and volcanic eruptions with “persistence, resilience, adaptability, self-belief, humour, determination and good old-fashioned grit”. Good aviation links isn’t just about opportunity but have an existential impact on lives there. Solomon Airlines CEO Sean Te’o noted a challenge on finding enough pilots and engineers. Given only six of the 22 destinations it flies make the business case, the need for partnership is key to service the region. David Glover, Air Niugini's chief commercial officer, said Papua New Guinea’s stunning natural diversity carries one unforeseeable cost - a high incidence of bird strikes. Brett Gebers, CEO of Nauru Airlines, serves Nauru, population 12,000, the world’s third smallest country, hampered by a difficulty in expanding its fleet without access to affordable finance. When Air Vanuatu failed, all these airlines joined forces to serve the islands, Tohi said, acknowledging the value of community. “You got to have grit. We have grit." There were many good sessions at the conference, but this panel on the Pacific was most insightful. If you wish to join the call for action, please connect with me or donate here to enable our NGO partners to deploy aid on a regular basis: https://lnkd.in/gRzmE5Qa