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General Aviation Discussion => General Aviation Discussion => Topic started by: casper on June 21, 2006, 12:47:45 PM

Title: 'Blair Force One'
Post by: casper on June 21, 2006, 12:47:45 PM

Downing Street and Buckingham Palace are to lease two aircraft to fly the Prime Minister, other ministers and members of the Royal Family on official business.



http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1093525.ece



Think it's about time too. One of the world's most important countries and the PM has to fly on chartered airlines  :?

Title: 'Blair Force One'
Post by: Tomcatboy48237 on June 21, 2006, 07:05:30 PM

There might be some more information here, a lot of discussion too.



http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2835199/

Title: 'Blair Force One'
Post by: casper on June 22, 2006, 09:25:16 AM

Good reading there but most of the discussion is about what type(s) of plane it/they will be. To be honest I don't care what type of plane they are, what's getting me is the fact that some people are complaining because it's going to cost something in the region of £1.5 million more to operate than the current setup. I can just image the American people being told that as a cost cutting exercise the President would now be using chartered flights and foreign airlines to move around the country and world.