Ryan Petersen

Like, well, you can kind of see the solution to that problem is in the problem itself.

It was like, well, all of the passenger planes are grounded, so we can't ship any mass.

We were like, wait, the passenger planes are all grounded.

And so with some of our connections, we got in touch with all the major passenger airlines, and we got 80 passenger aircraft and flew them to China.

Because cargo planes are allowed to travel on the internet.

Yeah.

Well, passenger planes can travel too, just not with passengers.

Right.

So we got the airplane, the airlines to give us great deals.

Because otherwise the planes are just idle.

Just sitting there in the desert and stuff and just sitting at the airport.

So we got all of this.

We got 80, we did 88, I think it was 87, 88 passenger planes full of,

masks in the overhead compartments, in every seat, obviously the belly.

And we just, we flew 500 million masks and other PPE items in for US Hospital Network in March and April of 2020.

It was crazy.

It was like one of the most meaningful parts of my career and everyone at Flexpora.

It was great because we were like, none of us in the world was in a good place, but it all of a sudden totally distracted us from whatever problems.

Trade fell off a cliff.

It was really bad for business in the first month or two.