Seamen,
Ah the old "you didnt get asked " retort. Yawn. Kind of enforces the flat earth thing.
If both you and your wife read pprune then i suggest that its probably you (both)that should get a life . Particularly considering the effort you put into your reply. To answer one point I'm not referring to the t.r.e.s etc that you mention, rather a bunch of europeans, who,if audited would demonstrate a very peculiar licence provenance.
Rwethereyet ,
If you are referring to the post on XL and AAi .I dont work for XL anymore, but just like to apportion blame in the right place. The quote from my post here you have mentioned is alluding to the fact that those attributes were more important than the selection itself.