Oh, and I couldn't give a hoot if station personnel have to work the weekend for an air show or anything else. I did it frequently throughout my 30 years; it's part of the deal.
Working a weekend was never a problem. I was based at Lyneham for over a decade, there was almost no such thing as a weekend, even when at home. I remember having to program 3 OCU circuit training sorties over a long Easter weekend to guarantee getting a 'frame.
But having to work a weekend, which came round each year with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, with an 8-day leave ban in place in order to prevent people taking part in something exponentially more satisfying, was another matter. It wouldn't have been
quite so bad if one were given the chance to take every other year's airshow off as leave.