Originally Posted by
andrasz
It is perfectly normal practice with air forces / military around the world to offer free flights to servicemen and dependents on a space-available basis -(...) while perhaps not the most comfortable, is perfectly adequate for the purpose.
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In the NATO Air Force I served with the Space Available term was used specifically in the relevant documents. One of the things I still remember from assisting to run the operation in my base is that we never left a pax (staff or relative) behind.
When I was flying on those flights it was few months after having flow on recently defunct Charter carrier of UK origin and I seem to remember the seats were more comfortable on the C-130.