Many thanks Meguro! I really appreciate your response--that is good news, and it helps me quite a bit.
By the way, for those of you at HACS/Crew, I noticed yesterday that HACS has contacted Northwest Airlines about trying to get on Northwest's "approved jumpseat list". I wrote a letter of support to our jumpseat committee urging them to add HACS to the list (a necessary step in the approval process), so hopefully you will have that resource available to you soon. (They are voting on it the second week of March).
Thanks again for all your kind help and good information...
O