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Old 16th Mar 2009, 09:29
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Ken Scott
 
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Most of the (civilian) posters are rather missing the point regarding military AT operations - as we don't generate a revenue stream we need to minimise the costs of our flying, so we use the minimum assets we can get away with to achieve the task, we can't make things more efficient by throwing extra people at the task because that 'wastes' taxpayers money. As we operate in a non - benign environment we also have to mitigate different risks and currently that makes us largely night - owls and so we can't operate 24/7, the day is for sleeping. No increase of crews/ frame will change that.

The military don't pretend to run an efficient charter operation (although perhaps the shiny world could learn some tricks....?) so spending time with RyanAir's ops dept wouldn't help except to give someone more stupid ideas, and we already have plenty of those. Replace the ACC with a 'healthy CTM' from BZN - great idea, we can sack all the chefs and save loads. And don't even get me started on capped actuals!
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