Originally Posted by
vascodegama
proone
I am entitled to my view as much as you I would say.
Have you checked the status of the numerous airfields that you mentioned? The chances of them all being available as airfields is debateable , not only that but is the runway length sufficient for large ac anyway. Add to that fuel supplies etc and the problems get worse.
Why did the system even look at the dispersal to civilian airfields in the first place?
You certainly are entitled to your view, what you are not entitled to is to decide what is, and what isn't, the point of other posters! The status of the MoD owned sites obviously varies, but we are talking about emergency use. I imagine the system looked at dispersal to civilian airfields for the same reasons that the RAF did the same thing in 1940, they are not on any existing target list, and there are far more of them!