Can't we close discussion on this until the United wheels have turned, and cityfan comes back to tell us the closing? The whole thread was fast asleep until a couple of days ago.
Then read it not, lest your eyes burst forth from their sockets on viewing this outrage, or your heart beat within your breast so fiercely that your blood foams frothily like the saliva of a RABID DOG (or as in this case, CAPTAIN/PURSER) :P