Originally Posted by
gosha83
I'm sure the number crunchers at BAe have done the cost-benefit analysis. Running a few flights to private airfields on daily basis is probably a lot more efficient than restructuring a giant company to accommodate a decrease in travel between the two places.
The US navy frequently transports its employees and contractors in the US on own planes up and down the coast of California, for meetings, tests, etc. That happens on daily basis also and uses taxpayers' money. But the logic of the operation dictates that they have to do this, so they do it.
I suppose all that makes sense, as BAE and the US Navy are such vast organisations maybe the need for private air shuttles is there.
However in many cases military put personnel on commercial flights. I know that the RAF use Easyjet quite often to shuttle staff from England to Cyprus and Germany.
Plus I remember reading that some US personnel travelling to Iraq flew United to Kuwait and then drove over the Iraqi border.