We all know that getting the vehicle you want is often a matter of luck when you spawn in, so this is definitely not a surefire deal.

On a round of Sidi, out of boredom I wanted to try out a squad based out of the air transport. I know it's been done before, and definitely recalls the days of the Blackhawk back in BF2, but after having fun just piloting a transport around during a Titan pub raid, I wanted to see if it could work. Here's the things I noted:

1) This will not work if the enemy has the gunship, for obvious reasons. Luckily, Lyramion had control of the gunship for those rounds, as we dropped him off at Reactor at round start.
2) Engineers in the bay doors, repairing while in flight, are necessary to transport survival while under any sort of attack.
3) I imagine this would have worked even better had we slapped both the PDS and IDS on the transport. So, the pilot should probably be support, for the IDS and to resupply anyone spamming explosives out of the bay doors.
4) I can't speak for the rest of the squad, but I had a lot of fun just tooling around, keeping the transport high and steady while the gunners put down some pretty deadly fire. I know Pfeil and Reaperassault were getting quite a few kills, and when we started taking mobile AA fire later, we had engineers frantically fixing away as the missiles pounded into us. I remember at one point, chaf3d and I did a midair seat change so I could fix up the transport.
5) Depending on how the kits are arranged, a squad based around the transport can act as a rapid response unit, anti-infantry support for vehicles attacking flags, or as a relaxing diversion from ground pounding.