FAI Awarded Air Ambulance Company of the Year for Record Third Time

FAI rent-a-jet GmbH’s Air Ambulance Division has been awarded the 2021 International Travel & Health Insurance Journal´s (ITIJ) Air Ambulance Company of the Year. This marks the second successive win for FAI and its third win overall, making it the only company to have ever achieved such a result to date. Nuremberg, Germany-based FAI’s triumph was revealed live from the ITIC Global celebration lunch in Madrid on Thursday, November 4th.

FAI beat off stiff competition from AMREF Flying Doctors and European Air Ambulance to secure the award. ITIJ honors the best of the travel insurance sector including those companies that have made an outstanding contribution to the global travel and health insurance industry over the past year.

FAI has been at the forefront of supporting the Covid pandemic response and in 2020, the company experienced one of its busiest years ever for its air ambulance fleet. This included medical evacuations of infected patients and repatriation flights of unaffected healthy individuals from all corners of the globe. During this time, FAI pioneered the roll-out of Covid-19 aeromedical transport capability, the EpiShuttle isolation pod. This enables self-contained oxygen and air ventilation directly to the patient, isolated from the cabin’s airflow.