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The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), managed by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), offers safe, reliable, cost-efficient and effective passenger and light cargo transport for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis. It is the only humanitarian air service that gives equal access to all humanitarian entities.

UNHAS responds to the need for access to the world's most remote and challenging locations, often under precarious security conditions, where no safe surface transport or other viable commercial aviation options are available.

Sometimes disasters ¨C such as an Ebola outbreak in DRC, earthquake in Haiti or Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar ¨C leave air transport as the only mean of access. At other times, it is conflict that puts entire areas beyond the reach of land transport or commercial flights like in South Sudan.

In 2025 UNHAS transported over 240,000 passengers and 2,500 metric tons of light humanitarian cargo such as medical supplies and equipment to almost 362 remote and hard-to-reach destinations.

To fulfil its mission, in 2025 UNHAS used a fleet of diverse aircraft types, including helicopters, chartered from commercial air operators that are compliant with the International Civil Aviation Organization Standards and Recommended Practices, and the United Nations Aviation Standards for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Air Transport Operations.