I once went flying on a Fri afternoon; the idea being to do some AAR in the North Sea, then pop into Waddo on the way home to pick up the Stn Cdr and some Air Marshal he was brown-nosing at a meeting before carrying on to the Covert Oxonian aerodrome. All went swimmingly until we lost an engine in the climb.... Sorted that, dumped, RTBd.
"Looks like Kelvin and his chum will have to come back in their car then, Boss"
"Err, no. Sorry, but he's insisting on being picked up by air"
So, as well as having to start the engone change, the groundies also had to generate an a/c from cold. We got a scratch crew together and eventually headed off in the direction of Waddo. Land, taxy round, pick the git up, fly home.
It must have been an urgent reason indeed for such a private taxi service? Was it hell - he went straight to Happy Hour.
Meanwhile, the driver drove the car back empty. Now, the meeting had actually been at Cranwell. So, had they driven back direct from Cranwell - rather than being driven north to Waddo to wait for us - they'd probably have got back earlier.
And the groundies worked long into the night to A/F our jet as well as doing the engine change on the other one.
An efficient and reasonable use of resources.......?