Originally Posted by
patagonianworelaud
Why isn’t the RAAF used for this proposed evacuation? After all they sign up in the knowledge they may need to operate in a hostile environment and with the attendant risks – it’s part and parcel of being in the military.
It was mentioned in NZ that the RNZAF should be doing the job but the reply was that approvals for military airplanes took a looong time compared to approvals for a civilian airplane