But at least we could fly home most of the time.
In the ad-hoc charter business, many times you do not have a 'home' (expect on paper) so...we carry, as a matter of normal course, 1500KG of spares in our fly-away kit, stowed in the aft belly compartment, and this provides us with good enroute maintenance support, together with our three ground engineers carried.
It works as advertised, no doubt about it.
IE: no cancellations to date, and only minimal maintance delays, otherwise.
Use the six P's...
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Pi**
Poor
Performance.
Properly applied, works like a charm.
Our ground engineers are paid accordingly...and are
highly appreciated, especially by the FD crew.
Double for the DFO...yours truly.