LifeLine Pilots
Case-by-Case Humanitarian Flights · About this organization
What you get
Flights for humanitarian needs, considered case by case.
How to start
Phone the Mission Coordinators at the listed number to ask whether your trip can be considered and how to request it.
The details, as published
LifeLine Pilots considers non-emergency humanitarian flight requests case by case through its Mission Coordinators. The route uses the same volunteer-pilot, medical or authority release, small-aircraft safety, liability, traveler, backup-plan, ground-transport, and lodging framework as medical flights, but qualifying humanitarian purposes are not fully cataloged. Recent official examples include transporting trafficking survivors to a healing retreat and moving future therapy dogs; examples do not guarantee eligibility or a flight.
What help you may get
Travel And Transportation
Case-by-Case Humanitarian Flights — travel and transportation
LifeLine Pilots considers non-emergency humanitarian flight requests case by case through its Mission Coordinators. The route uses the same volunteer-pilot, medical or authority release, small-aircraft safety, liability, traveler, backup-plan, ground-transport, and lodging framework as medical flights, but qualifying humanitarian purposes are not fully cataloged. Recent official examples include transporting trafficking survivors to a healing retreat and moving future therapy dogs; examples do not guarantee eligibility or a flight.
Amount not published
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
Not a B-ALL match. Medical treatment travel for a child with B-ALL belongs in the separate medical-flight offering, not this humanitarian-purpose boundary.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
- Call Mission Coordinators at 800-822-7972 to discuss whether the humanitarian purpose and route can be considered.
- Complete required release, safety, traveler, and liability steps if the request proceeds.
- Maintain backup transportation and arrange ground travel and lodging.
Ways to apply or ask
- Phone · Open form or page · 800-822-7972 — Mission Coordinators screen humanitarian purposes case by case; later requirements are not published.
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Volunteer pilot and weather availability control fulfillment.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Flight is never guaranteed; traveler arranges ground transportation and lodging.
- Qualifying purposes, documentation, route rules, companions, repeats, and current capacity are not fully published.
- Which humanitarian purposes, documents, route, companion, and repeat rules currently qualify?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Case-by-Case Humanitarian Flights · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Free Medical Flights · checked Aug 24, 2026