To quote the Slate article linked above: > In practice, despite fighting two wars simultaneously for a decade, CRAF seems to have been activated just once at t

To quote the Slate article linked above: > In practice, despite fighting two wars simultaneously for a decade, CRAF seems to have been activated just once at the very beginning of the Iraq War when the Pentagon activated 47 passenger aircraft and 31 wide-body cargo planes. > On the other hand, as a 2006 Congressional Research Service report on the program observed, “the program is voluntary” and domestic airlines participate in it because it’s financially beneficial to them. But my main gripe with it is that the US government apparently thinks it more important to maintain a military airlift reserve to be able to quickly fly soldiers and equipment to other parts of the world in a hypothetical future war than to let their own citizens have a well functioning free market that would give them more affordable transportation everyday. It's nothing but corporations first, citizens last, under the guise of national security. Just like the new steel tariffs are said to be because of national security.