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Medical Repatriation
Commercial airline Medical Repatriation
When a patient suffers a medical emergency overseas and needs to be brought back by medical staff, it’s typically done by specialized medical repatriation companies like Jet Companion.
Often, medical repatriation is organized and paid for by the patient’s travel insurance company, but each year, many families face a situation in which they have to pay out of pocket to transport their loved one to a care setting in the home community.
Jet Companion offers comprehensive commercial air medical transportation services. We take care of the patient from bed to bed, meaning that our office will make all necessary arrangements and coordinate the logistics to transfer the patient back home, either within Canada or internationally, from one country to another.
On the day of the mission, one or two fully equipped aeromedical escorts will travel to where the patient is and provide all necessary care to have the patient return home safely.
Jet Companion conducts medical repatriation missions worldwide on behalf of insurance companies, assistance centers, consular offices, corporate offices and upon request of families directly.
Regardless of the requesting party, booking patient transfers onboard commercial airline flights with a medical escort is the preferred alternative to the high cost of an air ambulance.
Commercial Medical Escorts
When a patient requires medical care or supervision, but is able to sit in an aircraft, as a regular passenger, we’ll send a flight nurse or an advanced care paramedic, make all necessary arrangements with the airline and organize the ground transports to and from the airport. Our commercial airline medical escorts have different backgrounds. Some are specialized in acute nursing care, while others are specialized in mental health transfers. Jet Companion provides medical escort flights anywhere in the world, including all cities in Canada.
Airline stretcher transport
If the passenger cannot sit and needs to lie down for transport, we’ll book a commercial airline stretcher service. Many major airlines worldwide offer medical stretchers on board commercial airline flights but certainly not all of them.
In certain parts of the world, finding airlines that accommodate stretcher transports can be difficult.
The combination of Airline stretcher transport and a commercial airline medical escort can be expensive, but on transatlantic transpacific routes, the cost of commercial airline repatriation, using a stretcher will still be significantly less than an air ambulance.
Jet Companion provides airline stretcher repatriations on itineraries that are serviced by airlines with a commercial stretcher service. Commercial airline stretcher patients who are being transferred to or from Canada will travel through the international airports hubs of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary or Edmonton.