Bringing you back home during the pandemic

A special mission - In March, as borders started closing across the world, aviation followed with an almost instant grounding of passenger flights. Airlines were no longer able to plan and schedule flights, leaving European citizens stranded abroad.

In March, as borders started closing across the world, aviation followed with an almost instant grounding of passenger flights. Airlines were no longer able to plan and schedule flights, leaving European citizens stranded abroad.

What followed was an impressive and complex international effort to set up rescue and repatriation flights to bring Europeans back home. Flights were carried out amidst fears, worries and uncertainties that this pandemic brought onto us. Captain Javier Fernández-Picazo, who operated a repatriation flight bringing Spanish citizens back home, shared his experience with us.

Publicerad 2020-07-27 av Rebecca