Basrah National.
 

Does THIS mean we can start leaving internal flights to Iraqi Air and come home now ;) ?

Please?

Unlikely ...... but I just hope they don't start asking service personnel to use this service when moving between the 2 cities.

Don't laugh folks, stranger things have been done!

Bearing in mind the location does this service qualify as "uneasyjet" ? ;)

First scheduled flight was supposed to take place on Friday, but they found that they had forgotten to sell any tickets for the innuagral flight, so it was cancelled. I kid you not.

I just thought of a good way to save money.

give Iraqi Air the contract to fly troops to Brize Ntn thus saving the Tristars for South Atlantic which will save paying Air Atlanta ... Plus everyone can then leave Basra!


What a money saver when do I become Sec for Defence?

And the An32 and the TU134 between Mogadishu/Nairobi and Mombassa were suitable for the ADF and other UN operatives???....probably not but some Defence Forces don't seem to have a problem with using whatever resources are available. The RAAF contracted IL76 is a regular customer through this patch with a very distinctive "OZZY" callsign, used proudly by the boys I might add.

Might find NGO's and certain coalition forces may use the Iraqi Airways service.

There is a UN B727 and other Russian types operating from Sharjah and Dubai to Afghanistan that is used heavily by UN and Coalition forces.

An EOD bloke I know was babysitting a load of explosives on an contracted AN12 for the Norwegian Army from Oslo to KAIA. (riding jumpseat)

The guy has an CPL back home, and he allmost **** himself when he realized that they where navigating on a handheld Garmin 90 when they entered Afgan airspace.. Worse things have happended, you might say, but due to weather, they had to divert to Bagram. The crazy "pilots" in the AN12 flew a home made approach on the G90 into Bagram (and emmerged from cloud at approx 500ft AGL), in IMC! In fact 2 minutes later a BAF Herc went missed due to weather on a tacan approach.

Once on the ground, they (pilots) tought that refueling and unloading the exp. pallets at the same time was a good idea.(!) The samme pallets my buddy had to force them to tie down back in Oslo, the loadmaster (and I use the therm loosly) figured that they where so heavy, that they would not move.......

My buddy did not look forward to the return trip......... :(

Contracting out to the lowest bidder has it's perks........:oh: