Civil Reserve Air Fleet

Civil Reserve Air Fleet

Subject – IR

Context – U.S. Secretary of DefenseLloyd Austin enacted the rarely used Civil Reserve Air Fleet to order several airlines to help ease the bottleneck of people arriving from Kabul at US bases in the West Asia.

Concept –

• The Civil Reserve Air Fleet is part of the United States’s mobility resources.
• The Civil Reserve Air Fleet is a cooperative, voluntary program involving the DOT, DOD and the U.S. civil air carrier industry in a partnership to augment DOD aircraft capability during a national defense related crisis
• Selected aircraft from U.S. airlines, contractually committed to Civil Reserve Air Fleet, support United States Department of Defense airlift requirements in emergencies when the need for airlift exceeds the capability of military aircraft.