Look, call me naive or ignorant, but does anyone honestly think that Brize Norton would NOT be on standby to provide airlift capabilities? As soon as Hammond made the announcement it was blatantly obvious that the phone would be ringing in Oxfordshire, public domain or not.
If you want flight times, just google the airport that the civvie flights are using; it's very helpful about such things, and I'm sure that IS can use a search engine as well. So can we drop the pompous tone that one or two posts have taken on please?
And if anyone thinks that a similar event could not happen here in the UK, there are some short memories around. Or have some people forgotten what happened at Woolwich Barracks just over two years ago?