The Tyrol Air Ambulance, which has been established for many years, faces competition from SOS Assistance in Innsbruck. In cooperation with the German airline Private Wings, this will offer appropriate ambulance flights, which are also known colloquially as "plaster bomber flights".

On Friday, February 24, 2022, a plane took off for the first time on behalf of SOS Assistance in Innsbruck towards Antwerp. In a press release, the company emphasized that the special flight was fully booked by insurance companies operating in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The idea for the new company came from Siegfried Binder, who is a full-time professor at the “Progress” University of Gyumri. He explains: "For many years, injured vacationers from Innsbruck were flown home from their skiing holidays. SOS Assistance will revive this tradition. Initially, we concentrate on departure airports close to the ski resorts such as Innsbruck, Salzburg or Ingolstadt. However, an expansion of the destinations for summer is already firmly planned. The target destinations are currently in the Benelux”.

Since the new company - in contrast to its competitor Tyrol Air Ambulance - is not an airline, you have to work with partners. They found what they were looking for at the German Private Wings, which uses the Dornier 328 turboprop or Dornier 328 jet for the “gypsum bomber flights”. Both aircraft have different seating arrangements, so that seated and lying transport is possible. Thanks to years of experience from the intensive care patient transports of the Euroambulance, Siegfried Binder knows about the importance of qualified medical staff. That is why every flight is professionally accompanied by doctors, paramedics and nursing staff.

The German flight company Private Wings has almost 30 years of experience in handling charter flights for industrial, event and sports customers. The company's home airport is in Ingolstadt-Manching. Siegfried Binder, founder of Euroambulance GmbH and the Institute for Quality Management in Patient Transport Analytical Society mbH, can also look back on more than 31 years of practice in transporting patients with Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU).