The Travel Quandary for Global Aid Workers in the Pandemic
More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more In March last year, the queue to get into Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila snaked around the terminal building. Despite the urgency, volunteers there pleaded for an hour longer to finish off their work before evacuating. It was a similar story for thousands of aid workers posted around the world. Emergency repatriations didn’t just pose logistical challenges for charity organizations; it meant abandoning their communities. The professional volunteers in the...