I think Hartington's points are moving the thread in the right direction.
Schedule carriers are not simply taking people from the UK to somewhere else and then bringing them home once they have finished. It is a two way business. Airlines don't just sell the few seats left over by the Brits, in fact many routes have much bigger sales the other way round. CAI is one of those routes. I work for bmi and can assure you that the seats sold in Egypt is vast. The airline might be based in the UK, their passengers aren't, that's why the airline alliances are such big business.
Quite a few Egyptians wanted to get home to their families.
If there are more people wanting to leave the country than there are seats on the scheduled carriers then it's fantastic that the FO get them an aircraft. Those who opt to use it should pay for it.
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