Recognizing the PPE supply chain is stabilizing across the nation, the Unified Coordination Group approved phasing out of Project Airbridge and scaling back flights through mid-June, with the final flight landing in the United States on or about June 30. The 100th flight arrived April 30 and the 200th flight arrived June 2. Kennedy International airport March 29, FEMA completed 227 flights with an additional 22 scheduled, or in transit, for a total of approximately 249 flights (as of June 18). Since the first airbridge flight landed at New York’s John F. Project Airbridge’s shipments addressed the immediate shortfall in our nation’s PPE needs by arriving up to nine times faster than cargo deliveries by sea – allowing prioritized distributors to deliver medical supplies to the point of greatest need across the nation during the height of the COVID-19 response. healthcare distributors including Cardinal.
This shipment method, the focus of the acceleration effort of FEMA’s supply chain task force, was a temporary solution to expedite the transportation of commercially distributed PPE from international manufacturers to the United States Led by FEMA and the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, Project Airbridge is a partnership between UPS and large U.S. medical supply distributors to bring personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical medical supplies into the U.S. Project Airbridge was created to shorten the amount of time it takes for U.S.
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