Covid-19 response: SIA operates 2nd flight to Dhaka
Singapore Airlines has operated the next flight to Dhaka in partnership with Temasek Foundation to aid World Food Programme and the global Covid-19 response.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Temasek Foundation are partnering with the World Food Programme (WFP) to aid the global Covid-19 response to help transport essential medical supplies and other health insurance and humanitarian what to points of need all over the world, said a news release on Monday.
As a part of this partnership, SIA operated its second flight to Bangladesh on Sunday.
Flight SQ446 attained Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:40pm from Singapore carrying over 20 tonnes of PPE including surgical gowns, goggles and nasal oxygen cannula.
Providing the logistics backbone for global Covid-19 efforts, WFP operates a network of hubs and passenger and cargo airlinks to make sure a reliable flow of supplies and support to the frontlines of the pandemic.
Since these services commenced in-may, WFP has managed a lot more than 800 humanitarian flights to 159 countries.
Under this agreement, SIA is making ad-hoc charter flights and freight space in its scheduled services on a cost-recovery basis, with flight costs being covered by a contribution as high as US$6.5 million from the Temasek Foundation.
