Code 99
I used that when I have been chatting with Pilots on the flight deck without realising what the time was. I got away with code 99 because most of them I knew. Never had a Delay code 31 in all the 9 years in dispatch which is good going I would say....
So if you are up on the flightdeck jawjacking with the guys in the pointy end and caused a delay, you covered up YOUR 31 delay, so in fact you DID have a 31 delay in your illustrious dispatch career.... you just did not have the integrity to admit that you in fact caused a delay. I have been in the dispatch business for the best part of 20 years now and I can admit to several 31 delays. We are all human and even good dispatchers sometimes make mistakes.