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May 01, 2020 (newstodate): Lithuania's Avia Solutions Group has found a way to support WHO aiming at helping the fight against the COVID-19 pandemia.
ASG has thus donated a USD 2 mio-worth flight budget dedicated to transporting future COVID-19 vaccines to highly infected places using the Group's aircraft fleet comprising the aircraft in Avia Solutions Group's sister companies SmartLynx with 23 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, Avion Express operating 21 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, KlasJet with six Boeing 737 aircraft, and Bluebird Nordic with six Boeing 737-300/400F aircraft.
In addition, the Group also manages the four Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft in the fleet of Magma Aviation, a Chapman Freeborn company and a family member of the Avia Solutions Group since October 2019.
-Today, the demand for cargo transportation rapidly increasing, followed by rates becoming 2-3 times higher. Some areas are facing issues for cargo transportation as the waiting time for large cargo or cargo to difficult areas can be as long as 2-3 weeks. As a Group, we want to be sure that once the vaccine is invented, its transportation to areas, which need it most, will have been solved in advance, says Vygaudas Usackas, Avia Solutions Group Member of the Board of Directors in a relase.
-According to certain sources, more than 70 vaccines are today being tested, and their certification procedures have already started. While the timeframe for approval is from late October 2020 to mid-2021, the vaccine transportation will most likely be needed in March–April 2021, the press release says.
ASG has thus donated a USD 2 mio-worth flight budget dedicated to transporting future COVID-19 vaccines to highly infected places using the Group's aircraft fleet comprising the aircraft in Avia Solutions Group's sister companies SmartLynx with 23 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, Avion Express operating 21 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, KlasJet with six Boeing 737 aircraft, and Bluebird Nordic with six Boeing 737-300/400F aircraft.
In addition, the Group also manages the four Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft in the fleet of Magma Aviation, a Chapman Freeborn company and a family member of the Avia Solutions Group since October 2019.
-Today, the demand for cargo transportation rapidly increasing, followed by rates becoming 2-3 times higher. Some areas are facing issues for cargo transportation as the waiting time for large cargo or cargo to difficult areas can be as long as 2-3 weeks. As a Group, we want to be sure that once the vaccine is invented, its transportation to areas, which need it most, will have been solved in advance, says Vygaudas Usackas, Avia Solutions Group Member of the Board of Directors in a relase.
-According to certain sources, more than 70 vaccines are today being tested, and their certification procedures have already started. While the timeframe for approval is from late October 2020 to mid-2021, the vaccine transportation will most likely be needed in March–April 2021, the press release says.