Is this the end of Hercules route operations as we used to know them?
The end of Hercules route operations as used to be, stopped around about 2003. Whilst the very occasional route may come up now, the days of hotacing around the world are pretty much over.
I for one couldn't care less that my samsonite will only come out once a year. Frankly, I'm more bothered about whether the airbridge is adequately funded to get me there or back in the same week.
A bit daft to be so readily identifiable in a civilian environment by carrying a military item of luggage, given today's change in threat risk?
It's a large black holdall, very much like any other of the trillions of holdalls that frequent baggage reclaims in airports worldwide.
So please, can we take off the rose-tinted specs and get back to talking about some of the more pressing issues that we in the RAF and the military in general are facing right now?