To Our Members Traveling to Haiti as Volunteer Relief Workers

Airline Ambassadors has scaled back its volunteer flight operations into Haiti as American Airlines will once again be offering scheduled service into the country as of February 19th. Insel Air is also offering $300 RT flights into Port-au-Prince from Miami. The University of Miami continues to offer relief flights for those medical professionals wishing to volunteer in its 300-bed field hospital for a week. The univesity provides accommodation and food. Future deployment dates are:

FEBRUARY 11, 12, 16,17,20,22,27      MARCH 01, 06, 08, 13, 15, 20, 22   

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Airline Ambassadors will continue to support the creation of medical teams to serve CDTI Hospital. Contact Joseph Mutti at joseph@airlineamb.org for more information.

Before you leave on one of our missions we wish to impart the following, as there have been misconceptions by some volunteers as to the role of Airline Ambassadors in Haiti.

We are not a travel agency and we are not a tour company. We are a non-profit that leverages airlines to provide seats and cargo space in times of need. We are able to provide $11 of aid and services for every $1 donated and apply 100% of all donated funds to our relief work, which, given the catastrophe of the Haitian earthquake, is now over-stretched and at breaking point.

Although experience in disaster relief is not mandated by Airline Ambassadors, a true and generous spirit of giving very definitely is. Flexibility is also essential where governments are strategizing to make operations more efficient and strive to maximally serve where resources are in short supply for virtually all actors.

Above all, our volunteers must recognize that those we serve must come first and that we cannot compound their substantial problems with our often times trivial concerns. We are in Haiti to serve, not to be served. Keeping a team spirit alive is essential if we are truly to serve what is probably now the very poorest country on earth.

Please remember that the economic cultural gap in Haiti is as wide as humans have experienced, and the conveniences we take for granted - and at times demand - might cost Haitians (or the organizations that have committed in the long term to their plight) substantial hardship or even lives.

We ask all of our members volunteering in Haiti to follow our plan and to commit their own substantial resources in both time and money for the extreme privilege of serving the poorest of humanity in their historic time of greatest need.

Thank you