Air Pig - this bit
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After 2015, the cost will rise as we all know that the service is being 'privatised' to a private contractor.
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£5000 per rotor hour, which is bound to rise, also have these costs been written into the new contract, knowing the NHS/MoD I would bet a beer or two they haven't
Not facts (maybe your £5000 is correct) just your opinion.
The £5000 is correct, and you can bet the MoD costs will be a bare minimum profit margin, remember the crews and aircraft are already a paid for asset and civil operations are paid as 'aid to the civil power'. So a percentage is from the MoD budget supporting civil AA operations as flight crew pay engineering and command and control are paid from the defence budget.
Yes I remember the use of PFI/PPI in the NHS, costs far more than an asset paid from central funding rather than over a period of 30 to 35years, look at Voyager or new build hospitals and schools.