With the Covid pandemic placing a chill upon corporate aviation activity over the past year, a collateral impact was felt by the Corporate Angel Network (CAN), the nonprofit business aviation charity that relies on available seats on business aircraft flights to fly cancer patients to treatment centers. It noted that a year ago, within the span of a week, most corporate flight departments halted all travel for the foreseeable future.
Amid the pandemic, the need to provide such services went on unabated. Indeed, given the fragile immune systems of most of the patients, the requirement to keep them away from the airline traveler population became even more critical. But with the virtual absence of traditional corporate flight department activity, CAN, which has organized more than 63,000 patient flights since its founding in 1981, pivoted its attention to using dedicated and proficiency flights, even flights to scheduled maintenance. Its team began sending requests to dozens of grounded flight departments to make sure that all flights were being considered for patient transport.
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