Originally Posted by
brokenagain
the flight hours are budgeted for anyway. If they weren’t flying a mission specific task like flying a politician around, they’d be flying a training sortie anyway.
Bingo... and there it is.
No. Not on an aircraft that is typically tasked for VIP transport. It’s like saying that if we go to war, it won’t cost anything more than the ammunition, because they would be flying anyway. Or perhaps the bushfire response... that cost a fortune from the contingency budget.