A & C - we could go round and round in circles for ever with this. The posters above have alluded to a lot of what drives our operating day but I think you just need to accept that we do business differently to you. Not because we're arrogant know-it-alls but because we're operating a military cargo aircraft, from a deployed base, in an operational theatre with it's associated threats whilst responding to tactical level tasking. Spending time with your planners would, I believe, give us little beyond a hotel bill for the RAF and a few hangovers. Like I said, I'm not being arrogant (he said arrogantly!) just calling it as I see it. It's always interesting to see how other folk work but we're not new to this world and I suspect the RAF has been involved in AT longer than most charter airlines (although you wouldn't believe it with the shinies sometimes....
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Seriously old bean, the only thing your job and mine really have in common is the nice view from the office window
