Just back from an interesting couple of weeks down route and catching-up on my PPRune-ing, so apologies for bubbling this one back up to the surface. Anyway, I can't find, anywhere in the original post or in any of the links, or anywhere else I've searched, any actual commitment to dates or specifics. What is the significance of this new announcement that is anything other than what has been announced before?
Sounds like about the 4th or 5th "If we ever get FSTA it will be a PFI with frames provided by AirTanker Ltd, or something" announcement to me. Any specifics anyone? Any reference to actual contracts being signed and actual aircraft being provided?
Sloanar - which Oz runways are too soft? A, ahem, friend, flies large USAF tankers down that way and he doesn't seem to have any problems....
Edited for bad grammar and inaccuracy.