UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1034 times:
US citizens are being sent to Larnaca, Cyprus per CNN. Not sure which carrier...or if it's even an airplane. The ways in and out of Beirut and Lebanon are unsafe in all directions, so I'm not sure how they plan on getting US citizens out unless they can get them to Jordan or go through Jordan to get to TLV.
Msllsmith From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 396 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 966 times:
Yes, I can see that my question was, perhaps, premature. But today some US citizens have finally started being evacuated to Cyprus, and I'm wondering about a number of things: What is the capacity of the airport there (?); What means are being set up to handle the increase of US citizens to leave and return to the US(?); and finally, the question which prompted this thread, will the US DOD charter a/c to go in and facilitate their return? I can't imaging the US gov't just stranding US citizens with no assistance to return to the US. On other occasions where mass evacuations have been necessary, there are the airlines (which really WANT these contracts) are under contract with the US DOD to do this sort of thing.
Has anyone heard if this will be happening, and if so, which ones are being readied to do it?
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57AZ From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2550 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 927 times:
Depending on what happens, they may activate MATS or MAC to airlift the refugees to the mainland. Since so many are evacuating to Cyprus, it may make more sense to use the military airlift capacity to get the folks out of the danger area.
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Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 895 times:
Considering the airport isn't exactly open for any sort of operations (kind of hard to land planes on severely damaged runways), folks are being evacuated via ship or helicopter. Plus I doubt any airlines would be willing to risk sending any of their a/c into a war zone to pick up passengers.
Msllsmith From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 396 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 884 times:
Well this is finally getting some reaction...... I'm also thinking Cyprus. I've been touching in with all the news networks and wondering at the kind of dead end of evacuation..... get them to Cyprus and then what?
Undoubtedly there are some people who might be "cash poor" to put it another way and would not have the resources to move further and rather than become "homeless Americans" in Cyprus would need some assistance.
As I said earlier, there are US carriers who are specifically hired by the DOD to evacuate people in this sort of situation.
Eventually, someone on this line will get a clue about the "who's and what's" of this,
I will be interested to find out what the solution will be.
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Msllsmith From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 396 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 821 times:
Actually I just saw an OMNI DC10 at BWI..... they have military contracts. So I guess I just got part of the answer.
For a while it looked as though we might abandon our citizens.... but it just didn't make sense..... Also, the "pay your way voucher" being waived was a good thing as well.
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