Quote! "You're not paying attention, Sideshow Bob, the tech stop for refueling also has a crew change, and in addition, catering uplift for the passengers (you do feed 'em in the RAF yes?), because... it would be operated as an airline operation not some off the wall military ops without adequate forethought.
The military is very good at what they were designed for, fighting, however, it would appear that the transport of personel could be greatly enhanced by adopting proven commercial airline ops, and at an expected lower overall cost.
One wonders...is the MoD up to the task?" Unquote
Now then 411A you really are showing yr ignorance! spookily enough we have pretty much got to grips with running a slip pattern around a route, with tech stops for fuel and crew change
We even have "in flight meals" we even have proper tray lay ups with forks and everything, ooh and scarily we have cabin crew that serve it with tea and coffee damn they even use the same trolleys as you lot.
Even had cabin crew from civvie airline compliment the catering as compaired to the very well astablished company she worked for.
Believe it or not we even provide steps and things for passengers to get on and off the airplane at either end.
Strewth we have even got to grips with cleaning the toilets on flag stops as well
Frightening really, very similar to any airline operation! And before you ask yes I have done an airline operation.
What do you think the RAF AT fleet has been doing quite succesfully for an awful long time, stumbling round the world giving the passengers a mars bar!?