Apposite to another actice thread -
I wanted to get to UK for a mate's wedding.
1. Checked that aircraft was going to UK that weekend - it was.
2. Sweet talked planner to change the ferry allocation to our sqn - job done.
3. Programmed all crews in sqn for that weekend including our own - full programme, no wriggle room.
4. Except for our crew which had a very low priority programme.
5. Tasked to fly to UK - dropped our programme, picked up slot, now top programme priority - job done.
Visit mate, wedding off, cold feet.
Pull spare wedding invite from mess notice board out of pocket and leg it to town for plan B - job done.
We also had a passenger who was flying back to UK to organise his wedding and as he was a mate we were happy to give him a lift. Turned out that he had been planning to use the same aircraft until some sod reallocated it to our sqn
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I haven't confeseed yet.
