Plea for travel industry to help refugees
An airline catering consultant is asking airlines, inflight caterers and suppliers to donate blankets, amenity kits, inflight kids packs and food and water to refugees in Greece and France.
Nikos Loukas is planning to charter a plane to fly from London to Kos on September 27 to deliver the donated goods and 130 volunteers to assist on the ground.
He has set up a website for volunteers to register their interest to fly to Kos and is currently in talks with one airport in Europe to secure hangar space to house donated goods.
Donations such as pre packed meals, children’s fun packs and coffee cups have started to trickle in since he started the campaign on Saturday, but he still requires further donations and an aircraft to transport it all.
‘I’m not raising any money for this but rather I hope that an airline or aircraft charter company will donate an aircraft for us to use on the 27th," said Loukas.
" Whilst it doesn’t come cheap, I am hoping that someone will offer an A320 or B737 that can easily be handled by Kos Airport."
Donations from the airline industry would be distributed evenly between a number of charities on the ground working in Calais and Kos including: Aid For Refugees in Kos and Lesbos, Kos Solidarity, Kos Kindness and Calais People to People Solidarity UK.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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