How are they going to employ recently sacked RAF people then? I do not believe there are very many recently sacked RAF people who have suddenly gained a B1 Licence, you do not get exemptions anymore for EASA licences from military service aircraft engineering experience, and also have a current Type Rating on A330 Trent 700. Suggest someone does their research before making "tongue-in-cheek" comments. Also, not many contractors will be happy to find their working week limited to 4 days, many will still try to work the days off somewhere else so how will that get prioritised? Basically Airtanker/Cobham have well and truly lashed the whole contract up. 1st aircraft was flown into Bournemouth for conversion to start at the end of August 2011, the 2nd aircraft just before Christmas 2011 and both were planned to be delivered to RAF by end of July 2012. They underestimated the amount of conversion work and then thought they could easily get licenced engineers at cheap rates to do that work.