Try a Civil Diversion
Pontius Nav. I have watched this thread with horrified awe and yet here I am adding the 210th note in six days. Your point about rig and diversions is soooo true.
Try a civil diversion. Dressed as PBI, a joint collection of self loading baggage departed BZZ for ASI and South Africa in a Tri* and sometime later landed at Manchester. We were dispersed to various hotels and our gear stayed onboard. When the bird was fixed, the airport authority held us in coaches outside the fence until such time that we could be taken direct to and loaded immediately on the aircraft, even though it was night. The point for this thread is that they did not care what we were wearing.