Granted the scale is very different but the US sent thousands upon thousands of active duty assignments to the Middle East via commercial airlines. It was simply the most efficient way to transport troops. The dedicated transports were for critical personnel and equipment mostly. I knew several people personally who did multiple rotations over the years, every flight was commercial.
There are hundreds of transatlantic flights per day. Maybe per hour in peak times.
Here we are talking about one per month.
Russia is losing more than a thousand personnel per day in Ukraine, even a full commercial jet with 300 soldiers once a month is not going to make a difference.
Granted the scale is very different but the US sent thousands upon thousands of active duty assignments to the Middle East via commercial airlines. It was simply the most efficient way to transport troops. The dedicated transports were for critical personnel and equipment mostly. I knew several people personally who did multiple rotations over the years, every flight was commercial.
There are hundreds of transatlantic flights per day. Maybe per hour in peak times.
Here we are talking about one per month.
Russia is losing more than a thousand personnel per day in Ukraine, even a full commercial jet with 300 soldiers once a month is not going to make a difference.
It’s how i went to iraq/kuwait. Commercial flight with the most of the battery hq to get there and back and commercial flights for leave.