After 16 years in the RAF I can categorically say that my experiences of Movers, overwhelmingly, and Akrotiri, very often, were not pleasant. These folk are sh1te, double sh1te and triple sh1te! Simple. They don't have any excuses, they're just plain vanilla sh1te.
Regie Mental: "...aircraft go u/s and when they do the RAF can't simply conjure up a replacement there and then, British Airways it ain't." I can tell you that BA doesn't have spare aircraft either, they just have more of them. If one breaks, they may pull another from a different schedule .... but that schedule suffers nevertheless. However, BA are unlikely to behave like those monkeys in Akrotiri.