Air Ambulance
Medical transfer and repatriation by air, arranged end to end. We source the aircraft, the medical configuration and the crew that fits the case — and we do it on the clock, because in this work the clock is the whole brief.
One call, one coordinator.
Medical transfer touches four parties — the sending hospital, the receiving hospital, the operator and the medical team. You should only have to speak to one of them.
- Bed-to-bed coordination — ground ambulance at both ends, not just the flight
- Medical escort sourced to the case: nurse, physician, or intensive-care team
- Stretcher, incubator and oxygen configurations arranged with the operator
- Landing permits, customs and hospital handover managed for you
- Documentation prepared for the insurer or assistance company
- One named coordinator from the first call until the patient is admitted
Matched to the case, not the catalogue.
The right answer depends on the patient, the distance and the runway at both ends. These are the four shapes a transfer usually takes.
A stretcher installed in a cabin-class jet, with a medical escort and monitoring for the whole sector. The standard shape for a stable patient moving between hospitals over medium or long distance.
- Typical range
- Regional to intercontinental
- Escort
- Nurse or physician
- Accompanying
- 1–3 family members, subject to type
A mobile intensive-care environment: ventilator, infusion pumps, full monitoring and a physician-led team. Used where the patient cannot be moved without continuous critical-care support.
- Team
- Physician plus critical-care nurse
- Equipment
- Ventilator, pumps, monitoring
- Notice
- Fastest possible — call first
The patient travels seated, accompanied by a qualified escort. Appropriate where mobility is limited but a stretcher is not clinically required — and considerably less costly.
- Patient
- Seated, mobile with assistance
- Escort
- Nurse or paramedic
- Best for
- Planned repatriation
Where the hospital, island or site has no runway. Usually flown as a short rotary leg either side of a jet sector, so the patient is not moved by road for hours.
- Use
- No-runway origin or destination
- Pairing
- Combined with a jet sector
- Assessment
- Landing site checked per case
From the first call to the receiving ward.
Four stages. You are told where the case stands at each one, without having to ask.
Common questions.
What we will ask, what it costs, and what we cannot do.
For a live case, aircraft and crew can often be moving within a few hours, and we will tell you a realistic wheels-up time on the first call. The limiting factors are usually clinical clearance and landing permits rather than aircraft availability — which is why the first call should happen before every detail is settled.
Patient location and destination, a contact for the treating physician, the diagnosis or reason for transfer in general terms, whether the patient can sit or must lie flat, whether oxygen or a ventilator is in use, weight and mobility, the number of accompanying passengers, and who is paying — insurer, assistance company or private.
The treating physician and the operator’s medical director, together. We arrange and coordinate; we do not make clinical decisions and we will not fly a patient the medical team has not cleared.
It depends on distance, aircraft type, the medical configuration and the escort level, and it is quoted all-inclusive before you commit. Card payments carry a processing surcharge of 3.5% for VISA and Mastercard and 4% for American Express; bank and SEPA instant transfers carry none.
Yes, routinely. We can invoice the insurer or assistance company directly where cover is confirmed in writing, and we prepare the flight and medical documentation they require for the file.
Usually yes — most configurations leave one to three seats. The number depends on the aircraft, the stretcher installation and the size of the medical team, so we confirm it with the quote rather than promising in advance.
Sixty One GmbH is a charter broker, not an air carrier and not a medical provider. Every flight is performed by an operator holding a valid Air Operator Certificate, and all clinical decisions — fitness to fly, escort level, equipment — rest with the treating physicians and the operator’s medical team.
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