Instead of bi**hing about who should be flying who based on patriotism, maybe we should be looking closer at why it has been decided that a US company can provide
our troops and
our MOD with a better service than any of our own UK bred companies.
Our forces are working their backsides off - far harder and enduring far more hardship than the majority of posters on the civil forums will ever experience.
I for one do not begrudge the troops the best service (both in terms of service provision to them and service provision to the MOD), whether that comes from a Yank a Brit or any other nationality.
If businesses in our country cannot provide the service required, then it should go to someone who can instead of allocating it to some less than ideal company for the sake of patriotism.
Maybe if some of the Brit posters who are whingeing about this actually stopped to think why the above may be happening, they will zip their lips and begin to realise that the problem is not with the MOD contract, but with the service that our once proud nation can provide.
Aplevid wrote
.....sad isn't it? its money and not the Flag anymore.
100% correct, but not for the reason you state... it's sad that UK companies cannot see beyond profits and take a bit of a hit in profits on one contract to provide our forces with the support they deserve.