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Meanwhile (ok, over a year ago) Angela Merkel took a commercial flight to G20 in Argentina.... https://m.dw.com/en/man-finds-himself-sitting-next-to-germanys-a
by zoomablemind 7y ago
Meanwhile (ok, over a year ago) Angela Merkel took a commercial flight to G20 in Argentina....
https://m.dw.com/en/man-finds-himself-sitting-next-to-germanys-angela-merkel-on-flight-to-g20/a-46533339 https://m.dw.com/en/man-finds-himself-sitting-next-to-german...
Not by first choice, but still..
Respect!
- netsharc 7y agoI'm surprised they couldn't just call Lufthansa and get a plane with crew. But obviously Lufthansa doesn't just have that lying around, and needing to fly from Germany to Madrid first would also take a lot of time. Meanwhile, Trump flew to Switzerland to the World Economic Forum (wow, that was actually this year, while Wuhan was in crisis) with 2 "Air Force One"'s...
- NickNameNick 7y agoI'm sure Lufthansa have aircraft and crew sitting idle now. As for moving the president around - It's not just the vc-25a 'air force one's They would have had at least one cargo plane to deliver his car. And there was probably an E-4 Advance Airborne Command Post somewhere nearby too.
- gmueckl 7y agoI don't recall exactly, but from what I remember, the choice to fly commercial was made to get to the destination as fast as possible. The time for readying a new plane and flying to the pickup airport was considered too long.