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Each Flight Carries 80 Immigrants (Original Post) lame54 Sunday OP
Someone posted that trump has a quota of 1500 deportees a day. That 550,000 a year (365 days). Silent Type Sunday #1
Not Cheap bpj62 Sunday #3
And costs close to a million. LisaL Sunday #2
Each Kid Berwyn Sunday #4
I saw a figure that I can't find the source.. EarthFirst Sunday #5
Is that one way or round trip? Renew Deal Sunday #9
I did some digging around... EarthFirst Sunday #10
Thanks Renew Deal Sunday #11
One side affect of all this will be bluestarone Sunday #6
Some pilots are going to have to work overtime. republianmushroom Sunday #7
This is the correct way to attack Trumps program Mountainguy Sunday #8
Yep, a microcosm of tfg whole term; a big waste of time and money uponit7771 Sunday #12
Just give them a business class ticket home and 5K JCMach1 Sunday #13

Silent Type

(7,880 posts)
1. Someone posted that trump has a quota of 1500 deportees a day. That 550,000 a year (365 days).
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 04:24 PM
Sunday

Gonna take a long time to get them all, and that’s assuming trump’s henchmen stop all entry.

bpj62

(1,037 posts)
3. Not Cheap
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:01 PM
Sunday

Military Transport is not cheap. This is also why countries are refusing to take the immigrants because they don't want US military planes in thier airspace. They are fine with the immigrants being returned via commercial flights but Trump wants to make a show of force.

EarthFirst

(3,333 posts)
5. I saw a figure that I can't find the source..
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:05 PM
Sunday

…each military transport is $835,000 -is that accurate?

EarthFirst

(3,333 posts)
10. I did some digging around...
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 09:31 PM
Sunday

The figure was based on the 12 hour round trip flight (for 80 passengers) on the FY23 hourly operating costs of a C-130E at $68,000 and $71,000 per flight hour -or $816,000 and $852,000 for one twelve hour flight.

https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/rates/fy2023/2023_b_c.pdf

JCMach1

(28,237 posts)
13. Just give them a business class ticket home and 5K
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:23 PM
Sunday

Pocket change and we cut costs in half

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