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Old 9th Apr 2020, 09:36
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Originally Posted by dr dre
Between legal implications of commercial pax on military flight, unfamiliarity with commercial boarding procedures, terminals, booking systems, safety procedures, freight handling, engineering, ground handling procedures and three dozen other things it’d take months of preparation for no real benefit when it’s far easier and cheaper to subsidise the current one operating now.
I think you are misinterpreting the quoted post. It's saying that the government will utilise RAAF jets to fly the pollies around when needed in lieu of them taking a commercial flight. This is rather commonplace already. Not that they will use air force planes to fly around us common folk.
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