Via, the Bulgarian company may or may not be a member of the BULALPA so I think it's a wildcard. The Air Berlin guys are probably VC and should be in the loop shortly. Again, the IFALPA mutual assistance, due to the spontaneous nature of the individual sickness...(had to read that one twice...
..) took a while to send out. IFALPA was extremely quick to get on it but I doubt that we got it out before the aircraft arrived.
Cheer up LE