Air Canada and Westjet were able to mobilize quickly, by solving internal logistics challenges and working around the clock. Both flights happened in a few days following the disaster and is the result of prior experience with previous disasters.
Air Canada's flight was a collaboration with the ONEXONE Foundation and a consortium of Canadian businesses and organizations that flew supplies and personnel from Montreal to Port-au-Prince on Jan 16.
Medical supplies, blankets, tents, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries and bottled water were loaded to be distributed to victims by the on-the-ground relief agency Partners In Health. One hundred search-and-rescue technicians from the Montreal Police Service, the Montreal fire department and the Quebec provincial police also departed on this flight.
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