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Titan Airways has successfully delivered the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines to the remote island of Saint Helena. The airline operated its Boeing 757 on the route this week, landing Monday after a fuel stop in Accra. It’s the first of two missions to the island that are planned so far.
Titan Airways’ 757 has returned to Saint Helena with an important cargo onboard. Photo: Saint Helena Airport
Titan’s 757 returns to Saint Helena
Last summer saw the first arrival of Titan Airways’ Boeing 757 in Saint Helena. The flight, a repatriation mission, was the first time a 757 had landed on the island, making it the largest commercial aircraft to arrive on Saint Helena. On Monday this week, the 757 arrived again on the island, this time carrying a shipment of vaccines.
By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-01-07T08:40:00+00:00
UK operator Titan Airways’ is to introduce three Airbus A321 converted freighters to its fleet, with the first one newly redelivered from modification specialists ST Engineering and EFW.
Powered by CFM International CFM56 engines, the aircraft, MSN1238, was originally delivered to MyTravel Airways in 2000, and subsequently operated by Thomas Cook Airlines.
It was ferried to the Singapore conversion plant as G-DHJH in December 2019 and will operate for Titan as G-POWY. The twinjet departed Singapore’s Seletar airport on 7 January to return to the UK via India.
Source: ST Engineering/EFW
Titan’s first passenger-to-freighter A321 is a former Thomas Cook airframe