The charter passenger airlines which participate in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) supply ninety percent of all Department of Defense (DOD) passenger airlift because the DOD has not invested in its own organic passenger aircraft. In the past decade, the charter passenger airlines have experienced an erosion of their commercial business base due to competition from low-cost carriers as well as larger airlines seeking to bolster flagging revenues by expanding into the vacation markets once dominated by the charter passenger airlines. As DOD requirements diminish with the conclusion of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn, the future solvency of these airlines and their ability to support DOD CRAF commitments is in doubt.
Set Up to Fail: Charter Passenger Airlines and the Civil Reserve Air Fleet
2011
41 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , United states transportation command , Afghanistan conflict , Department of defense , Iraqi-war , National security , Second world war , Aeromedical evacuation , Air transportation , International organizations , Transport aircraft , Passenger aircraft , Charter passenger airlines , Civil reserve air fleet
NTIS | 1992
Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF)
NTIS | 2006
|Civil Reserve Air Fleet Support Program
NTIS | 1985
|Maintaining Civil Reserve Air Fleet Participation
NTIS | 1993
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