Not sure about the telegraph story but I have paid to return myself home on time and I'm not the only one.
When a 2 week det became a 3 week one purely because Transport command could not get us home on time I shelled out and sorted myself.
Flying home 2 things struck me
1 There were MANY empty seats on my flight (approx 100)
2 If the RAF had shelled out it could have got all of us home on time for less than $30 000
Does a 10 cost that much 2 ways across the oggin? bearing in mind we only needed to go 1 way.
Kicker is, as I was home on time I was expected to return to work 4 days before the others didn't mind losing the LSSA but that
