Eighteen aircraft — four from United Airlines, three each from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Atlas Air and Omni Air and two from Hawaiian Airlines — will be used but they won’t be flying into Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, according to a news release from the Pentagon. Instead they will be used for “the onward movement of passengers from temporary safe havens and interim staging bases.”
The CRAF activation allows the Department of Defense access to commercial air mobility resources “to augment our support to the Department of State in the evacuation of U.S. citizens and personnel, Special Immigrant Visa applicants, and other at-risk individuals from Afghanistan,” the Pentagon said.
Twice before the CRAF was activated: support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm from Aug. 1990 to May 1991 and Operation Iraqi Freedom from Feb. 2002 to June 2003.
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