Space available flight to Rammstein, AFB? AD husband must be with me?
Hello, I am a military spouse of a active duty soldier who is currently deployed to Afghanistan. He has been there since July of last year and is scheduled to return home in June at his original duty station in Baumholder, Germany. I heard about these AMC passenger terminal/Military space available flights through his brother in law. I would really love to save money on the $600+ ticket to germany (since I cannot be command sponsored, he only has less than a year left there) However, I hear he has to be present with me in order for me to board this flight. Is this correct? The only way for him not to be with me is a signed letter from his commanding officer? In addition, these flights do not sound very reliable. I want to be in Germany by May 19th or 20th, are you not able to pick your dates in advance? I live near WPAFB in Ohio, but I hear Baltimore-Washington IAP MD has flights out to germany constantly and Dover AFB, DE has a much better chance of catching a flight to germany. Any advice or experiences? I am lost, if this could work I would be willing to wait around but I am afraid a flight would get divered to another AFB(in that case I would wait for another flight, right?), cancelled, stuck somewhere, etc. Is it all worth it? THANK YOU!!
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Hello, this used to be my job kinda (augmented) so let me help you out a little. Your best chance for catching a Space A flight is either Dover AFB DE or McGuire AFB NJ. Those two have flights to Ramstein daily. You will need to be with him yes, or a Command Sponser letter. It shouldn't be hard to get. Sign up for Space A as far ahead as you can (usually 60 days). You can do this by phoning their passenger terminal. Make sure you get that letter first though. After you sign up, you basically reserve a spot. Anyone who signed up before you is ahead of you, and you are ahead of any Space A's that sign up after you. Flights don't get diverted that much. However, you will be assigned a priority, and yours won't be the highest. Emergency Leave, Enviromental Morale Leave, and Space Required (usually deploying) personel take precedence over you. If you were to stop at another station, they can kick you off to replace you with cargo or high priority passengers. Luckily usually the flight to Rammstein doesn't have any stops. Get your command letter, sign up for Space A at whatever PAX terminal you wish, and call them near your flight day to see what missions they have going out. Like I said, the longer you are on the Space A register, the better your chances of getting selected for the earliest mission is. Good luck.
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Because your Husband is deployed he doesn't have to be with you for you to fly Space A. You will just need a copy of his deployment orders. You need to plan to leave a few days before you really want to be in Germany because you may not get on the first one or two flights that you sign up for if they don't have space for you.