Last year the red-white-red air rescue professionals at ARA’s three bases in Fresach, Nassfeld and Reutte completed 2,557 missions. Never before have the crews been challenged in this way.

ARA Flugrettung's Reutte station is celebrating its 20th birthday. Since the beginning of the station's ARA era, 17,753 missions have been completed.

ARA has seen a 26 per cent increase in deployment so far this year over last year. The reason is the sheer number of alpine accidents and increasing use of the night service by emergency control centres.