It appears that the Astraeus 757 was privately hired by BP to evacuate it's employees out of Libya and bring in additional FCO staff to help further evacuations. Is it me or do Astraeus always seem to end up rescuing our people...?
Good on them though - nice to see that at least one of our airlines is doing something. Why don't BA / BMI etc continue their scheduled flights but fly empty outbound to help the evacuation effort?