American Airlines flies its first coronavirus vaccines to Miami as industry hopes for a recovery

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Passenger airlines have begun shipping coronavirus vaccines alongside FedEx and UPS

American said Monday that it flew a777 between its hubs in Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Miami and that the vaccines would land in a "U.S. territory in the Caribbean later today." A spokeswoman for the carrier declined to disclose the destination.

American operated stress test flights last month to make sure its network and supply chain could handle temperature and other requirements to ship the vaccine. United last month started flying a series of flights to transport vaccines on its largest aircraft between Brussels and its Chicago hub. Passenger airlines are working alongside shipping giants like

 

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this whole industry has been nursing off the us govt and will be buying back stock soon enough us markets are rigged don't defraud yourself

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