Roony
Fair enough - I shan't offer possible explanations to your gripes in order to give you a line to take with Admin wg/JPAC or whoever and perhaps find more to the HTD issue - personally I don't believe the answer you were given is correct. I think there is more to it than that and you have been fobbed off with a "plausible" reason by a slack barsteward to get shot of you. Rather than bleat here, get the facts together (particularly the petrol prices) and take it up through your chain of command.