BT all points raised seem valid, except...
blacking a RW airfield for a day to FW is how important or how inconvenient?
and 'Another point which has sort of been touched on is that the costs for deployment from a home base lie with the user unit/HQ. If they have have to up the crash cat, bring in extra staff, pay for HOTAC for the crew and movers/engineers/support personnel, those costs lie with deploying unit/HQ. Most of the time they would rather pay c*ck all and ship people by bus to the airheads. Sorry but that is the way the bean counters work as they have no concept of the morale' Is there really a need for HOTAC?
As I said earlier and I think you agreed, if the Staish is prepared to make it happen for whatever reason a lot of the Station based objections go.
Note, not trying to pick a fight here, just questioning assertions made. It seems that in reality the lack of AT is the crux, not the will or ability to make it happen.