Flights from Brize Norton

A question about : Flights from Brize Norton

Good Morning,

I have been on the RAF Brize Norton website looking at flights so is it true that you can get flights to destinations for holiday purposes & what is the us the usual routine with booking these flights? im guessing they are alot cheaper?

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Best answers:

• From Brize Norton's website:
  Q. Can I travel on RAF or MOD chartered aircraft to the Ascension and Falklands Islands?
  A. You can travel as a fare paying passenger on our flights to these destinations. Details are available from the Falklands Island Government Office in London, telephone 0207 222 2542.
  It's not so much they are cheaper - more that they are the only flights to these destinations - direct flights anyway. Don't know about Ascension, but the only other flights to the Falklands are from some godforsaken hole in southern Chile
  And you'll need yellow fever vaccinations - in case the plane has to divert to Dakar.
  Other destinations from Brize Norton you have to be military personnel or family to use. They are called indulgence flights and you can be kicked off last minute for operational passengers.
• When I went to the Falklands from Brize Norton in 2007 for work purposes the return fare was over Ј1k.
• yep, had some US ex-military who wanted to do fishing at Ascension and Falklands - they paid over Ј1k each for their flights from BZN!
• TBH, in these days of cheap air travel the advantages of "indulgance flights" aren't worth the disadvantages unless you're using them to go somewhere a civvy airline can't take you.
• I haven't flown from BZN for years so I don't know if things have changed. The flights used to be "dry" and the aircraft seating backwards. Interesting times.
• Sure it was the Movers who took the batteries and not the scuffers?
• The VC10 has been retired. No requirement to fly backwards now.
• To go off at a tangent::
  I wonder how the EU regs on delayed/cancelled flights apply on this route? And if they don't what's the grounds for exemption?
• You can also indulge to Cyprus! The problemn is your not 100% booked on the aircraft, so if its full you wont be on it.