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Thanks for the offer.
The reason for Doncaster is that they have an ILS and the weather looks as if we would need it. Also the people who were meeting the veteran are located there.
I would happily pay the fees, although Doncaster agreed to waive landing fees and the handlers offered a 50% discount.
The problem we would have with you using my aircraft is insurance: I have no way of adding you to it on a Friday evening.
As things stand, having received no offer by then, we made the sad decision to cancel the flight a couple of hours ago as I'm getting worse rather than better and I didn't want to risk the flights there (I'm based at Cambridge) but also the risk that, having got him there, I might not be able to fly him back.
I know that the veteran is disappointed, and I would love to find a way of making it possible for him to go; but I have to be realistic and not yield to the getthereitis that I feel.