Spot on Sammajoor.
That's why so many Majors get made up to Lt.Col on retirement or end of term. They keep the rank and the increase in pension.
Anyone parading around a seaside boarding house calling himself 'Major' is about as pretentious as an out of flying pilot calling himself 'Captain'.
But-a cunnning plan-I do have a credit card with 'Captain Absolute written on it. It helps with the discount on hotels and the flight upgrades. You could probably get on with 'General' written on it if you filled in the form that way round. But then the Bader Meinhof group might blow you up.
Addendum:
Perhaps the press has been very fair. It perists in calling a crash an accident, which is an understatement. An airline being accident prone for three months is not nearly as bad as an airline being crash prone. How much of an aircraft write off do we have to achieve before moving from the realm of incident to accident to crash? Is it quantifiable? Must passengers die before it's a crash? What's in a word then? Who cares!
Last edited by Der absolute Hammer; 12th Dec 2009 at 06:06.
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