CASE STUDY: Insta Specialist repatriation during Covid-19

Fung Hung, Aviation Doctor, Medical Coordinator, and Hei Ng, Critical Care Nurse, Operations Director, from Insta Specialist Company Ltd, report on a repatriation from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, to Hong Kong...

Post-Covid missions: are they really 'post'?

TrustAir Aviation’s Medical Director Dr Istvan Lunczer shares the latest challenge facing air ambulance operators – the safe transport of Covid patients who continue to suffer from long-term respiratory distress...

Interview: Volker Lemke of FAI

Volke Lemke talks to ITIJ about the importance of flexible operational processes in air ambulance provision, fleet renewal considerations, and why investment in patient isolation units was key to stability...

Air ambulance industry copes well with Covid-19 fallout

With commercial flights suspended across the world, the role that air ambulances play in the travel assistance industry has radically changed during the global pandemic. Robyn Bainbridge investigates how emergency...

Breaking down air ambulance billing – where does the money go?

Air ambulance flight bills can be expensive and difficult for insurers to understand. They are often drawn up quickly right before the flight and can vary hugely between different missions...

Air ambulance accreditation in the era of Covid-19

Keeping service quality high when no-one is looking can be difficult, so when Covid-19 meant that no in-person accreditation visits could take place, the various accreditation organisations around the world...