Probably a very dumb question ...but I'm going to ask it...
With all this going on, there have obviously been a few Int flights from the UK (as seen on a well known virt radar site).
..Now my question is why do they continue to fly all the way from the UK....loiter a bit and do their thing and then return all the way home again.
Why do they not re locate to somewhere closer in mainland Europe and base there...giving them shorter transits and longer loiters?
Is it just the ground support needed would be too much to move?