When a critically-ill patient doesn’t have a second to spare, you don’t have time to wait. That’s why air charter is commonplace in life sciences and healthcare. By chartering a plane, you’re placing your package on a direct flight to the point of care—wherever that may be.

After all, there’s no time to delay when your patients are waiting for lifesaving radiopharmaceuticals or organs for transplant. There’s no room for logistical errors when irreplaceable lab specimens need to arrive safely and as quickly as possible.

Chartering with Confidence: Handling Specialized Shipments in Healthcare

Because a chartered flight isn’t scheduled like a commercial one, you can avoid the issues that scheduled flights often face. With air charter service, it doesn’t matter if your local airport is dealing with delays, or if your patient lives far away from a major city. And because your chartered aircraft only serves you, you can request accommodations for shipments that require special licensing, expertise, or handling, such as radioactive materials or cold chain products that must be refrigerated.

However, there’s more to chartering the right air charter than just choosing the aircraft. For example, many countries have strict regulations on who is allowed to provide charter services, and where they’re allowed to fly. In the U.S., chartered flights require a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 135 certificate to operate.

When every second matters, the last thing you want to worry about are delays and regulations. That’s why you need a logistics provider with the right partnerships with aircraft owners and charter companies around the world to create the best air charter solution for your patients’ needs.

Building the Right Air Charter Network

To fulfill your urgent life science and healthcare delivery needs, your logistics provider must have the technology and expertise to ensure a swift and smooth delivery every time. That includes:

• A Dedicated Charter Team that’s available 24/7/365 and can arrange for air charter service anywhere in the world.

• Personalized care from take-off to landing, ensuring that you receive the precise logistic solution you need. If your delivery requires a positioning flight, you need a partner with the technology and expertise to make the connection seamless.

• A fleet of options, with a wide range of aircraft to suit every kind of chartered shipment. When you need a small aircraft to deliver an urgent package to a remote location, your logistics provider must have the right resources and connections to get it there.

• The expertise to choose the right aircraft: whether it’s size, dimensions or capabilities, you want a partner who knows how to select the right aircraft for the job—so you don’t have to.

• Expedited ground courier services to complete the journey. No matter how remote the airport, our network of more than 45,000 courier partners worldwide ensures we’ll deliver to your final destination on time.

The Quickest Path to Urgent Patient Care

When your shipments are time-critical, you need a logistics provider that can ensure they arrive when needed. That’s where MNX steps in. To us, it’s not just a package. It’s a patient. So no matter where or when your delivery needs to arrive, you can trust us. Our team of in-house air charter professionals—equipped with advanced, proprietary technology—will get it there as quickly as possible.

When you place your trust in MNX, you have a team working exclusively for you and your patients. 

Leave the logistics to us, so you can focus more on what you want to do most: save lives.

The package may be small, but it’s irreplaceable. You can’t afford to lose it—and there’s no room for errors or delays in delivery. What if it’s loaded onto the wrong plane? Or gets mishandled and damaged in the cargo hold? What if it’s lost? What if you knew an easy way to avoid nightmares like these?

Now you do: trust your most valuable packages to an On-Board Courier (OBC), who personally travels with your package as either checked or carry-on luggage on a commercial flight. Then, personally delivers the package to its final destination and puts it in the hands of the intended recipient. It’s the ultimate in chain-of-custody accountability.

Just follow the airline’s guidelines for carry-on or checked luggage—as well as any Customs requirements. Your OBC takes it from there.

The Most Secure Way to Fly

Because your OBC maintains full personal custody of your package from start to finish, they can monitor its status during every minute and every mile of the journey. So there’s less chance that a mishap could damage the package or delay its on-time arrival. Plus, your OBC can keep you informed with real-time status updates. And if you have a change in plans, you can let your OBC know without concern that the information will get “lost in the shuffle.”

Other OBC benefits include:

• Punctual couriers you can trust with last-minute shipping. Unlike cargo services—which usually require you to arrive at the airport three, four, or even five hours before your scheduled flight time—an OBC can arrive as soon as an hour prior. 

• Easy passage through Customs at any time, no matter how small or remote the airport. Some small international airports won’t process inbound cargo from midnight to 6 a.m. However, an On-Board Courier on a commercial flight will arrive alongside other passengers, so they can go through Customs as soon as they arrive.

Now that you see the value of relying on an OBC for your most valuable shipments, how do you select the right one? Taking it a step further, how do you ensure your OBC is on the best flight to ensure on-time arrival at the destination airport? And how do you make the right transportation arrangements on the ground to make sure your OBC quickly and safely completes the final leg of the delivery?

For that, you need the right logistics strategy—and the right logistics partner with strong analytical capabilities, deep expertise, and close relationships with airlines and local couriers.

The World’s Largest OBC Provider

When the highest levels of service and accountability matter most, you can trust MNX, the world’s largest provider of OBC services. Every day, we pair our clients with one of 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers from across 190 countries—trained to provide white-glove service and boasting deep expertise in hand-carrying unique and time-critical items.

Our couriers are also thoroughly vetted: we require them to undergo background checks from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and—if required—obtain additional state or federal clearances as well.

MNX Intelligent Routing technology helps ensure your OBC will be on the best flight out to arrive ASAP. We identify and use nonstop flights when possible. And MNX Solution Specialists analyze additional variables such as the on-time performance of airlines and the level of airport traffic—all to ensure the quickest and safest path possible to your destination.

For your most valuable shipments, MNX is the only concierge you need.

Learn more about our range of transportation services that MNX tailors to your precise needs. 

Every day around the world, the life science and healthcare industries rely on Next Flight Out (NFO) service for its most time-critical deliveries. When a life is on the line, you need to deliver from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible. By choosing NFO, you’re putting your lifesaving package on the next available flight.

After all, there’s no time for delay when a patient is waiting for an organ transplant or when the clock is ticking on a radiopharmaceutical with a short half-life. There’s no room for logistical errors when a clinical trial participant needs the next dose of the next potential cure—or a critically ill patient hopes a new cell therapy will mean more birthdays and time with the grandchildren.

For all its promise, NFO has its challenges, requiring precision logistics and deep expertise to succeed in the life science and healthcare industries. For example, some shipments might require special licensing, expertise, or handling, such as radioactive materials or cold chain products that must be refrigerated.

Just as important, there’s the challenge of knowing which flight to choose. Sometimes, the next available flight isn’t the one that will arrive at your final destination the fastest. When an on-time delivery could be the difference between life and death, you don’t just need the next flight out. You need the best flight out.

Choosing a Life Science Logistics Partner for Your NFO Strategy

For your most urgent life science and healthcare deliveries, your logistics provider needs the technology and expertise to ensure the fastest delivery—in other words, the best flight out. That includes:

• Flight routing technology that identifies the fastest delivery based on weather, aircraft type, security requirements, on-time performance, schedule reliability, and availability of backup flights. For example, non-stop flights tend to be more reliable for on-time delivery, so sometimes it’s wiser to wait for the next non-stop flight, rather than taking one that leaves sooner but has multiple stops or unreliable connections.

• Trained agents that provide precise answers around such critical questions as which airline has the best on-time performance for a specific route or which airports you should avoid at which times. 

• Global reach and strong carrier relationships—so no matter where your shipment needs to go, it has the best opportunity to arrive on time. MNX delivers to more than 500 airports across 190 countries.

• Expedited ground courier services to complete the journey, picking up at the airport and delivering to the final destination. MNX has more than 45,000 courier partners worldwide.

• Anytime, anywhere coverage: emergencies happen 24/7/365. So you need a logistics provider ready to respond when needed—including nights, weekends, and holidays.

A Partner for Life

When lives are on the line, NFO can be your best choice for on-time delivery—and MNX your best choice for NFO. MNX Intelligent Routing technology helps ensure you trust your time-critical delivery to the best flight out. We identify and use nonstop flights when possible. And MNX Logistics Specialists analyze additional variables such as the on-time performance of airlines and the level of airport traffic—all to ensure the quickest and safest path possible to your destination.

Every day, MNX arranges NFO time-critical deliveries for life science and healthcare companies to 190 countries around the globe. We maintain more than 700 forward stocking locations and over 45,000 uniformed, professional couriers trained to provide white-glove service, including delivering directly to the operating room.

Armed with MNX Intelligent Routing technology, our MNX Logistics Specialists are ready when you are to tailor the ideal solution for every NFO delivery, every time. We have the global infrastructure, technology, relationships, and expertise to help you create the right NFO strategy. So you can focus on what you do best—saving lives.

Contact MNX to learn more about our Life Science logistics services.

On land, in the air and across the seven seas, right now the world’s supply chain can be summed up best in a single word: chaos.

Blame it on the pandemic, explosion of ecommerce, out-of-control wildfires and hurricanes, labor shortages, bottlenecks in cargo shipping—you name it. They’re all contributing to a global supply chain that once ran like clockwork.

The holiday shipping surge will only add to the chaos as deliveries are delayed around the world, just as they were last year.