Fascist move, and a desperate one.
“Pentagon compels commercial airlines to help with Afghanistan evacuation,” by Ronn Blitzer, FOXBusiness, August 22, 2021:
The Department of Defense will compel commercial airlines to help with the evacuation of Afghans and U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the third time that the U.S. has activated what is known as the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).
Eighteen aircraft will be used, including 3 from American Airlines, 3 from Delta Air Lines, 3 from Atlas Air, 3 from Omni Air, 2 from Hawaiian Airlines and 4 from United Airlines. The planes will not be going to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement, but will transport people from “temporary safe havens and interim staging bases.”
“They will be used for the onward movement of passengers from temporary safe havens and interim staging bases,” Kirby said. “Activating CRAF increases passenger movement beyond organic capability and allows military aircraft to focus on operations in and out of in Kabul.”
USTRANSCOM will have mission control, but the planes will maintain their civil status under FAA regulations, according to the Pentagon.
The airlines will be compensated as part of the arrangement. Kirby said the Pentagon “does not anticipate a major impact to commercial flights” as a result of activating the fleet….
wpm says
The problem is not enough airplanes ?? it is the Taliban holding control of all the city outside the airport. Planes now being flown out are leaving less then half full from reports. So I guess more planes flying out almost empty will make the crisis go away? If people can not get into the airport in the words of our former secretary of State Hillary (bathroom computer server) Clinton what difference does it make? Our military is made to stand down as British and French troops try to get their own people to the airport .Our “fearless leader” is hiding in his basement in Delaware our Vice President is on a Southeast Asia tour and their mouth pieces are vomiting word salads to the main stream media about how the crisis is under control.
roberta says
Yeah, must be that perception thing, more flights in and out per day give cnn something to lie about.
But wow, I know its true, but find it unbelievable they are forcing commercial airliners into service.
Everyday this pile of shittt grows by double.
Steve says
Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) is voluntary. The headline here is very misleading. Yes the POTUS can use it but airlines join voluntarily unless Biden wants to use Emergency War Powers.
BTeboe says
The reason we don’t have enough military transport is because they are being used to ferry illegals from central and south America.
Peacelover says
Maybe Biden and Harris will be sneaking them into various airports in the U.S.? With this administration,I wouldn’t doubt it.
Peacelover says
‘airports’,meant to say towns
Infidel says
So will they ask those people whether they’ve been vaccinated, and will they enforce masks on their flights? Just like they do for domestic flights?
roberta says
Rhetorical huh?
No, these are more Brown Shirts to force the mask mandate on US citizens.
Crusades Were Right says
It’s just the planes, right? I mean, they won’t compel the civilian crews to fly the planes to a war zone, will they?
CogitoErgoSum says
It sounds to me as if only the military will be carrying people out of Afghanistan and then dropping them off somewhere nearby that is safe. The refugees will then board the civilian airliners and go someplace else. I hope the only ones they take to the U.S. are U.S. citizens and the ones that are not U.S. citizens will go to a Muslim country.
Jerry says
Let the Muslims all go to.Muslim countries, such as Yemen, Somaliland, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran or even Phakistan and Turkey.
Jerry says
Let the Muslims all go to.Muslim countries, such as Yemen, Somaliland, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran or even Phakistan and Turkey.
wpm says
The democrats need to import their future voters in before the 2022 election ,millions of Afghan refugees flown in resettled in red states given instant citizenship ,benefits ,housing, health coverage ,welfare ,and voter registration before they step off the plane.
Natas says
“Let the Muslims all go to.Muslim countries…..” dream on. Muslim countries won’t take them and muslim refugees and terrorists prefer the civilized west. The western lib-tard left welcome the influx of votes ,at least until thy vote in sharia law. Major cities in Belgium will be mThe barbaric inbredohamedan majority by 2030.When will the west wake up, the in-bred, pedophile,misogynistic, thieving,murdering,slavers have been at was with humanity since the 7th century.