News / A thin time ahead for CRAF cargo airlines serving the US military as cutbacks bite

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Excess US civil reserve aircraft capacity is expected to “go away” as carriers “right-size”, according to the chief of US Air Military Command.

In an interview with the US Senate Committee on Armed Forces in March, General Paul Selva, head of AMC and nominee for Commander of Transcom, said a report would be released in June “to revise appropriate recommendations” to Civil Reserve Air Fleet carriers in the wake of what is expected to be a severely depleted budget for military ...