Flight Assistance

Air Charity Network

Free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community or national crisis.

Air Compassion America

Locates and coordinates bed-to-bed air ambulance services, provides compassionate counseling and works to lower air ambulance and medically assisted travel costs.

Airlift Hope America

Provides air transport to specialized medical facilities for evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

American Red Cross Emergency Travel Assistance

Financial travel assistance to attend a memorial or funeral service for a service member killed on active duty in the combat zone, or when traveling to the bedside of a service member injured in a combat zone.

Angel Flight Central

Arranges charitable long-distance flights for access to health care and for other humanitarian purposes.

Grace Flight of America

Arranges free air transportation for patients so they can get to specialized medical treatment not available to them locally.

Help with Deployment-Related Travel

Information on U.S. commercial airline special assistance programs to family members of military personnel injured or killed in military action.

Helping Our Heroes Foundation

Provides patient advocates, funds for education, financial and career counseling and emergency funding. Also offers travel grants to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) patients and family.

Mercy Flight Southeast

Free air transportation by private aircraft to distant medical facilities when commercial service is unavailable, impractical or unaffordable.

Mercy Medical Airlift

Long-distance medical air transportation for specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment.

National Association of American Veterans

Transportation service to and from the Washington, DC area medical centers so that hospitalized service members and veterans can receive more visits from immediate family members.

Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Financial Assistance

Provides members of the Navy and Marine Corps and eligible family members and survivors with interest-free loans or grants to help with emergency needs such as: emergency transportation, vehicle repairs, funeral expenses, medical/dental bills, food, rent, utilities and child care expenses.

Operation Hero Miles

Free plane tickets to family members of wounded service members to visit their loved ones recovering at military hospitals across the country.
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