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Originally Posted by Radi K
Mark - the money for the jets comes from insurance. These jets go and come from the islands all the time picking up sick people who have travel insurance.
Careflights jets aren't doing these runs for charity - it's a very 'for profit' part of their business.
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Hi Radi
While it's true that they do come and go often (with 222 missions and 1508 hours flown across four company aircraft in 2015), it's not often you hear of such a big requirement being met by what is a charity run service, and should be publicised to give credit where credit is due. Insurance is no doubt the main customer, but I think you will find its not an exclusive one, as is the likely case with this incident.
Retrieval medicine is a good revenue stream for Careflight (and a somewhat logical one), the $7M profit it contributed last year to the Careflight group helped to cover some of the $19m cost of the community helicopter operations where no one is primarily picking up the bill, something that cannot be said for other commercial enterprises in this space.