The flights you mention that were downed were also for the UPDF, if they couldnt take precautions then why and how will they do now?
The UPDF will also as is SOP with them, pay no positioning & depositioning, sign no fixed legally binding contract, offer 10 flights as a carrot and then only do 3, and let you wait months for your money.
No self respecting company will even consider, and insurance cover for these flights has become unaffordable.
The industry have become wise to these shinnanigans and once bitten twice shy.
After the Kampala bomb blasts during the Soccer World Cup Al-Shabaab have demonstrated that they can hit back at will, plus with the cargo to be flown sure they will do anything to prevent further deliveries to Mogadishu.
Think again guys - this guantlet is becoming too tight to run. Suggest the UPDF buy their own IL-76 and fly their own suicide missions.
Last edited by AAL; 2nd Aug 2010 at 19:15.