Seems that good old An225 is back into operation as of late, doing actually quite a few flights to delivers medial equipment (I guess mostly PPE) all over the place.
Although I am very happy to see her flying I'm a bit baffled by the economics of it. Yes, there is a huge hold to fill and this type of freight is probably fairly light, so it is probably a good choice of equipment. Yet my understanding is that the An225 is a very expensive freighter that is (was) only considered for outsized cargo, i.e. when you really did not have any other choice. Given the current circumstances, I'd think that there is a lot of cheap alternative on the market (including passenger aircraft that could be easily converted for such a light load) so I don't quite understand how this works out on the money side. Is the Ukrainian government (or some other organisation) subsidising these flights ? Or did I miss something in the equation (quite possible
) ?