Thanks WEBF.
Each of the QECs has the ability to embark upto 50 aircraft and helicopters. We currently have 9 frontline F-35 jets with 617 Sqn, with the plan being for another 17 to arrive by 2023, in order to allow 809 NAS to reform.
Even with this ambitious plan to procure another whole squadron's worth of B's by 2023 it still doesnt allow for anything like enough jets to even fill the deck of a single QEC carrier!
The amount of real estate these carriers give us is completely disproportionate to our ability to fill it. Tell me again very simplistically why we needed two great honking carriers??