Heard tell of one, when in the early days even Barons couldn't afford a car, and he travelled to the airport on the Reading "B" bus, as it was then, but didn't like travelling in uniform on the bus so placed a locker in the crew reporting office and changed before and after flight. One night, preparing for the evening Monarch, Stratocruiser flight to New York, he found that someone had stolen his uniform trousers !
He informed scheduling that the Monarch Service would be delayed that evening, as he had to catch the bus home and back to collect another pair of trousers. No problem Captain, replied scheduling, go home and we'll call the Standby Captain. No way, he said, tonight's Monarch is MY command, it'll have to wait. And it did ! I believe the next day's London Evening Standard had the headline - BOAC Captain delayed the Monarch passengers to collect his trousers.
Such was their "power". Imagine it happening these days !