About the impact of airpower in CG, apart from ep 1 where we could see F22 like jets and gunships/transports, the only aircrafts we have seen as far as R2, are:
-the "jetcopters" that get recurrently shot down by Slash Harkens
-the KMF carriers.
-Avalon
For season 1 this relative absence of using given air supremacy can be understandable as the conflict was of low intensity, focusing on guerrilla and urban skirmishes mainly (but I wonder if all the aircrafts Cornelia sent as bait in ep 24-25 were only KMF carriers).
But for R2, especially considering the EU front which seems to be a full scale war, even more than the lack of airpower, is the fact that a landing fleet seems to be only a vehicle for close combat armored vehicles
Admitting that if we haven't seen any aircrafts in ep 28 was because of resupply delay/mutual destruction/bad military doctrine, it would be kinda weird if a major power holding naval supremacy wouldn't support a landing party with artillery (especially as these Panzer Hummels on the cliffs made obvious targets), so either:
-Britannia's navy is weirdly equipped and I wonder how it could hold naval supremacy
-Schneizel doesn't like to use all the means at his disposition to ensure victory
-Schneizel deligths in seing his soldiers being killed.
-Schneizel wants Suzaku to be killed (Yay!)
-That's just an improbable setting made to allow Suzaku to display his one man army show (here's the answer
)
Well, a mecha show still remains a mecha show
gbye military logic...