Hurricane Katrina Relief Initiatives
United customers demonstrated their overwhelming and immediate response to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Mileage Plus members generously contributed more than $3 million toward this emergency relief effort. We channeled mileage donations to frontline relief efforts, in addition to encouraging cash donations made directly to our charity partners—the American Red Cross, AmeriCares Foundation and Operation USA.
In turn, we awarded more than 40 million miles to these Mileage Plus members through a limited-time promotion that gave 500 miles to members who contributed $50 or more to designated charity partners.
Mileage Plus miles are a very effective tool for helping disaster victims. Miles donated to our Charity Miles program can help defray the cost of travel for medical personnel or others affected by a disaster.
As a part of the hurricane relief effort, we:
- Sent humanitarian flights into New Orleans delivering more than 100,000 pounds of supplies, including food and water from Second Harvest and personal care kits from the American Red Cross.
- Flew medical personnel to New Orleans, while outbound flights carried more than 1,000 evacuees to Chicago and multiple cities in Texas.
- Supported a "Day of Giving" in more than 10 U.S. locations. At United’s world headquarters, nine 24-foot trucks were filled with basic necessities donated by our employees for displaced persons living in the Chicago area.
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Southeast Asian Tsunami Relief
We assisted with the tsunami relief effort in Asia in 2005, donating available cargo space to ship relief supplies to southern Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other coastal areas on the Indian Ocean.
We helped relief organizations, such as Airline Ambassadors International, the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, Operation USA, Save the Children and Sarvodaya U.S.A., transport doctors and other health care workers to the region and aided in the relief effort to help fulfill supply and shipping needs identified by these agencies and the affected governments.
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