Astral Aviation has been selected by UNICEF for its humanitarian airfreight initiative, this was disclosed by the Astral Aviation founder and CEO, Sanjeev Gadhia.
“We are truly honoured for being selected by UNICEF to participate in the Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative, based on our track-record in performing humanitarian flights within Africa and the Middle East in the past twenty years,” said Sanjeev Gadhia.
“We will be placing our entire fleet of B747F, B767F, B727F, DC9F, CRJ-200, Fokker 50 and Fokker 27 on high priority, which is critical to the timely and secure delivery of vaccines and critical supplies, as we consider it our moral-obligation to ensure that no person in Africa is left-behind due to lack of aircraft capacity.”
Astral Aviation is a cargo airline based in Nairobi, Kenya that operates scheduled and non-scheduled/ad hoc cargo charters to regional destinations in Africa and to Liege in Belgium. It was established in November 2000 and started operations in January 2001.