A lot of excellent comments by people with no money
Of course a nice shiny new Multi role something or other would be much better.
The problem is that it takes time and money neither of which seem readily available.
At around $1m each the L1011 is hardly capital expenditure.
To put them into sevice as people have said just to ferry troops up and down would be minimal cost.
Then they can save the pennies for the next generation craft
Yes the major airlines have to change equipment to keep up with the Jones's
But if you cannot get cheap finance you have to burn a lot of fuel to go from an L1011 lease at $80,000 and month to a fuel efficient Boeing lease at $700.00
BTW could someone remind me what the Mighty USAF are doing for their current tanker aircraft
