Maple 01
I believe I was the skipper on that flight. I phoned 2 Gp to ask permission to land at your place. I was told "No Way".
As AT captains, we are not allowed to exercise judgment. I would love to be able to drop guys at home bases - more hours towards my airline job!!!! (passed my Air Law today - hoorah!).
As the title of this thread suggests, it is 2 Gp and your own TLB holders that stop this happening. Often, it is just the lazy git on the ASCOT ops desk who can't be ar**d to change the itinerary.
It might be worth a call to find out if it is an OCU crew, because they may well prefer an extra leg for trg value.
We are on the same team.