Originally Posted by
BEagle
Are there
any perks left now for senior and/or air officers?
Another friend was a 2* and told me of a forthcoming journey to be made. "What time is your driver coming to pick you up?", I asked, assuming that the journey would be made in a company fast black of some form or other....
Only to be told that these days it's self-drive in you own car and fill in the forms....
I was at a conference in Spain a couple of years ago and found that the RAF senior officer attendees had been required to take an easyJet flight at some inconvenient time of day from Gatwick... Are there
no standards these days?
BEagle,
Easyjet is about par for the course these days. Had to do a quick trip out to the Med recently on an ops issue. Had to get there pronto and Easyjet was only option in a realistic timeframe and even that was questioned.
That said, the most apoplexy inducing thing I've encountered was one of my SNCOs being told to submit a business case to go on an op tour as directed by Manning!