What about the CRAF aircraft/crew?
05-12-2020, 10:41 AM
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What about the CRAF aircraft/crew?
International flying is going to be down for awhile and some of the airlines who do it are trimming their international fleet types and may need to be moving internatIonal pilots to domestic due to their seniority if international fling (or all flying) is still significantly impaired after 1 October.
so what about CRAF aircraft and CRAF pilots? Is somebody watching that issue? It seems like a reasonable case could be made to Congress and the US military that the government should bear the FULL cost of preserving that capability until civilian international flying resumes.
so what about CRAF aircraft and CRAF pilots? Is somebody watching that issue? It seems like a reasonable case could be made to Congress and the US military that the government should bear the FULL cost of preserving that capability until civilian international flying resumes.
05-12-2020, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
International flying is going to be down for awhile and some of the airlines who do it are trimming their international fleet types and may need to be moving internatIonal pilots to domestic due to their seniority if international fling (or all flying) is still significantly impaired after 1 October.
so what about CRAF aircraft and CRAF pilots? Is somebody watching that issue? It seems like a reasonable case could be made to Congress and the US military that the government should bear the FULL cost of preserving that capability until civilian international flying resumes.
so what about CRAF aircraft and CRAF pilots? Is somebody watching that issue? It seems like a reasonable case could be made to Congress and the US military that the government should bear the FULL cost of preserving that capability until civilian international flying resumes.
05-12-2020, 02:00 PM
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DoD is watching, specifically TRANSCOM.
Intervention will occur if it looks like required capacity will be lost permanently, of if it will degraded such that it cannot be utilized in a timely manner.
In fact they should have had a regularly scheduled conference with the airlines last month, doubtless the agenda had to be changed last-minute from what was originally planned.
Intervention will occur if it looks like required capacity will be lost permanently, of if it will degraded such that it cannot be utilized in a timely manner.
In fact they should have had a regularly scheduled conference with the airlines last month, doubtless the agenda had to be changed last-minute from what was originally planned.
05-12-2020, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by RemiDenton
CRAF?
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05-12-2020, 03:22 PM
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I’d guess if a major contingency erupted, the airlines could easily fulfill the demand. It would take a fairly large and permanent collapse of international flying to effect the CRAF. Even during the Iraq war, they only barely went into Stage II.
05-12-2020, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
I’d guess if a major contingency erupted, the airlines could easily fulfill the demand. It would take a fairly large and permanent collapse of international flying to effect the CRAF. Even during the Iraq war, they only barely went into Stage II.
C-17s being revisited for the civilian force will be a no-go although mentioned in the article. Not happening. Well, the revisit might but the actual sale of it won’t. My 2 cents.
05-13-2020, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by C17B74
C-17s being revisited for the civilian force will be a no-go although mentioned in the article. Not happening. Well, the revisit might but the actual sale of it won’t. My 2 cents.
Like USN fighters will never perform as well as USAF fighters... Navy birds need beefy center structure and LDG gear for carrier ops, which they then have to drag around the sky all the time.
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