Korean Air Flies First Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 Vaccines to Korea

Korean Air has flown the first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 vaccines to Korea.

An Airbus A330 carried 117,000 doses, enough for 58,500 people, from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Seoul on Friday.

The delivery was a collaboration between Korean Air; Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT); the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC); Korea’s Customs Service; the Korean military and police; as well as UPS.

Korean Air loaded the vaccines, packed in 21 custom-made boxes, into special containers and transported them in a temperature-controlled environment.

UPS oversaw the delivery from the Belgian production plant until it was loaded onto Korean Air's aircraft. Upon arrival in South Korea, UPS transported the vaccines to vaccination centers in five Korean cities, including the National Medical Center in Seoul.

Last December, the airline shipped a COVID19 vaccine ingredient manufactured in Korea to Amsterdam. Since then, the airline has transported frozen vaccine ingredients under cryogenic temperatures to Europe and Japan several times.

Korean Air also recently signed an agreement with UNICEF for humanitarian and relief shipments of COVID19 vaccines.

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