EESDL, you have a point there!
It would be an utter waste to travel all the way south only to be clinically barred from the joys of spicy-on-the-rocks!
Mind you, there are limits. I recall once being asked by my Wg Cdr why Albert wasn't flying, so rang the flight...
"Errm...we're working a small snag. Should be fixed soon"
The snag? Their Auth, it seemed, was too pi$$ed to turn up to work. Fortunately, in the interests of harmony, I managed to hide this from my Boss. But it cost OC1**2 many a beer thereafter. Blackmail, they say, is a dirty word...but accurate!