It's not just the tax paying plebs of the mainland who are affected, witchdoctor.
As a tax wasting pleb back in 1990 I got stranded in GUR for a couple of days with two Sea King 4s. Even our military instrument ratings were not good enough for IFR in class A, so we had to wait for the weather to clear.
Two more nights of free spending sailors in the bars, and tax payers' money in the hotel.