Heidi Airline is an airline port based in Austrian in a small town named Zell am See. Zell am See is the administrative capital of Zell am See as a district. Heidi mainly serves US and European states in their commercial operations in automobile industry thus it acts as a link. The airline serves two centers that is Stuttgart from Germany that was recently started and US City of Detroit. The license to operate in the United States was granted to Heidi airline at the start of this year.
Heidi airline runs this operation using one aircraft that is Boeing 767 300ER that is categorized into one class only. This operation is a daily affair. The aircraft can comfortably accommodate 350 passengers. To help through in its operations, Heidi airline has employed 160 people.
The emergency planning department is set out to make ensure that there is proper care for company employees and family members and also for survivors in case of disasters caused by aviation. As the department manager, I seek out to organize my team to ensure internal crisis response teams are well supported so as to effectively and efficiently deal with aviation crisis in the Heidi airlines.
The Emergency Planning Team therefore sat down, discussed and we agreed to set up a Family Assistance Centre (FAC) in Heidi airlines. FAC is a site where family and friends of potential aviation disaster victims will gather to receive information, provide information concerning their loved ones and receive resources to meet their needs. The FAC will help coordinate airline disaster assistance activities to achieve the desired results. The main reason to set up Family Assistance Center in Heidi airlines is to provide a disaster response resource centre where the needs of aviation...
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...on disaster. In case of any disaster, family members and friends will gravitate where they are sure of finding information about their loved ones. To ensure these people needs are met as fast as possible and given the right information, prompt set up of FAC will help cater for these needs.
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