Out of interest, what is the comparative cost of maintaining bases such as Woodvale, Church Fenton, Colerne etc against that of maintaining an 'operational' station? If there is cost to be trimmed, should we not be looking at these areas first?
I think it is all fairly neatly summed up by a comment that was made to me some time ago by (if memory serves) ACAS - if the lords and ministers could, they'd have the entire air force operating from one runway in Lincolnshire!
