Afghanistan, Biden evaluates aid for scheduled flights for evacuations

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, is considering asking airlines for help to increase the pace of evacuations from Kabul while security conditions around the airport appear to deteriorate and fears of possible attacks by the airport appear to be deteriorating. Isis. This was reported by the ‘Wall Street Journal’, according to which the head of the White House could activate the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Yesterday the Pentagon announced that the US has so far evacuated 17,000 people, including 2,500 Americans. Read also Commercial airlines that are part of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet on Friday evening were alerted for a possible intervention, sector officials told the WSJ, adding that the help of up to 20 commercial planes from five companies could be requested to facilitate returns. The planes in question will not fly to Kabul, but will shuttle between the US and US bases in Qatar, Germany and Bahrain, where many people already evacuated from Afghanistan are waiting. Created in 1952 in the wake of the airlift from Berlin. , the Civil Reserve Air Fleet is a program that airlines can register with by making a certain number of aircraft available to the Pentagon within 24 hours of being activated by the White House. The program was last activated on a large scale in March 2020, when the Pentagon called for the help of commercial planes to repatriate Americans who had been stranded overseas with the outbreak of the pandemic.