LAR is a non-profit association founded in 1988. It has around 180,000 members and provides emergency air rescue services in Luxembourg and around the world. Photo: LAR

LAR is a non-profit association founded in 1988. It has around 180,000 members and provides emergency air rescue services in Luxembourg and around the world. Photo: LAR

The only provider of air rescue services in the grand duchy, the Luxembourg Air Rescue has been named ‘Air Ambulance Company of the Year 2024’ by the International Travel & Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ), an international recognition for the humanitarian organisation.

Specialising in air rescue and medical transport, operating with a fleet of helicopters and ambulance jets equipped for intensive care, Luxembourg Air Rescue (LAR), founded in 1988, operates in Luxembourg, the Greater Region and around the world, offering medical repatriation services and humanitarian missions. It has four main activities: air rescue, patient repatriation, organ transport and humanitarian missions. The LAR is also involved in the .

Its “great spirit of innovation” is what earned it the LAR the distinction of ‘Air Ambulance Company of the Year 2024,’ awarded by the International Travel & Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ). The award is presented annually to recognise ambulance companies that have achieved excellent performance and contributed to the quality of the air ambulance industry.

Competing against two other companies, the LAR, which has 190 employees, stood out for its resilience in an unfavourable environment. “The great spirit of innovation that LAR 2024 has shown despite adverse circumstances. After the terrible fire in its medical warehouse on 26 March 2024--which destroyed almost all its medical equipment--the LAR managed to maintain the operational capacity of its fleet without interruption,” said the statement. It had already been voted Air Ambulance Company of the Year in 2016.

“The choice of Air Ambulance Company of the Year 2024 fills me with great pride. It is proof that we have succeeded, despite all the challenges, in providing the best services in the field of patient repatriation. I would like to thank the entire LAR team for its unshakeable team spirit and its commitment to the good of our members and patients,” commented LAR chairman .

Among its notable achievements over the past twelve months, the commissioning of a second Challenger 605 long-haul ambulance aircraft and the introduction of new flight planning software have marked important milestones in the LAR’s development. This completes its fleet of seven rescue helicopters (five MD902 helicopters and two Airbus H145 D3), as well as five ambulance jets (three Learjet 45XR and two Challenger 605).

This article was originally published in .

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