Thanks clicker - much appreciated. Couple of questions: I'm not sure how long ago this event happened, but is that sort of thing still a not infrequent problem? (i.e. being refused overflight permission; poor communications infrastructure).
Also, you got me thinking.
Perhaps I could rephrase my original question (for everyone) to:
Without naming yourself or your airline (unless you feel able to), please describe your most challenging shift in one or two sentences.
If the challenge related to aircraft, rather than crew, it would help to know the aircraft type. It would also help to know what year the event happened.
Thanks again clicker, and in advance to anyone else that can help me out with this.