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Carrying people is pretty low value. There's no end to their numbers.
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Wow. I'd have gone with "No matter where you go, there you are."
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The 1973 airlift into Israel is case in point.
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Made me look. I started with
https://www.google.com/search?q=historic+airlift. Nothing on Israel in the first 8 pages. I expected the Berlin Airlift of course, but right up there was the 1990 airlift of "1,70,000" people:
The Story of Airlift - The Largest Air Evacuation Effort In History
Then there was a story about
repatriating 33 circus lions to Africa.
First mention of Israel on page 8 was a story about airlifting 19 Yemeni to Israel last week (
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/155129/secret-airlift-ends-historic-mission-bring-yemenis-home. The tag end of Operation Magic Carpet from 1949.
Groceries, people and lions. You meant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass?
22,325 tons over 32 days.
The Berlin Airlift was
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...over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade#Berlin_airlift
Edit: At the risk of going off-topic, I looked at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_evacuations- July–August 1998 - Nearly 14 million people were evacuated because of massive flooding and landslides in north and central China, and 5.6 million houses were destroyed. An additional 300,000 people were evacuated on August 7 in anticipation of a possible breach of dikes along the Yangtze River. (This is the one where China was air-bombing their own dams to divert flooding!)
- 13 August to 11 October 1990 - During the 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait Air India entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by a civil airliner. Over 170,000 people were evacuated from Amman to Mumbai– a distance of 4,117 km- via 488 flights operated by Indian Airlines. The operation was carried out during the Persian Gulf War to evacuate Indian expatriates from Kuwait and Iraq. (Mentioned above)
This century has been brutal:
- June 2013 - Nearly 1,000,000 people evacuated in 12 days from Uttarakhand, India due to a flash flood and landslide. This operation was completed by the Indian Air Force, ITBP, NDRF, and local authorities. Helicopters were widely used because road networks were severely damaged.
- October 2013 - Nearly 850,000 people were evacuated in 3 days from the coastal areas of Odisha (more than 750,000) and Andhra Pradesh (nearly 90,000) in the face of Cyclone Phailin. This operation was completed by the Indian Air Force, ITBP, NDRF, and local authorities.
- December 2014 - Nearly 1,000,000 people were evacuated in the eastern Philippines before typhoon Hagupit