Originally Posted by
Flightrider
Unless someone can enlighten me to the contrary, if Air Tanker is effectively a Government transport department which has been out-sourced, it has a job to do and has no exercise of discretion in the construct of that tasking.
To the best of my knowledge, Airtanker is a purely Civilian company that won the contract to provide the RAF with 9 A330 aircraft to replace the VC10s and Tristars. They have a fleet of 14, the others being used for contacting work such as flying for Jet2. It is not a Government Transport Department. The only way Airtanker aircraft could be forced to fly asylum seekers to Rawanda is if the RAF did it, which I suggest is unlikely to happen. In my experience most Jet2 passengers don’t even know what type of aircraft they are on, let alone who owns it!