Grabbers - I fly a bizjet, so we are contracted by companies, rather than individual pax, and are paid in advance.
We often get charters from oil companies and we are still open for business to fly to Libya.
I only get paid if I fly (ts and cs have been badly eroded in bizjet world the past few years) and so I really do want the work. It is not a question of me "wanting to be involved" - if the RAF are doing this for free then it is seriously unfair to us.
StopStart - I never claimed to be in the know about the situation at the airfield they landed in - but I do know that there are plenty of airfields in Libya still open to commercial traffic. Indeed, are any closed? But whatever the situation, while commercial flights can still go into Libya, the RAF should be charging at least full commercial fees - and preferably they should be charging a premium to stop freeloading oil companies getting subsidies at taxpayer's expense.