Spoken like a true SRT captain, Beags. If you were the Corporal manning Route Hotel check in how would you have phrased the question in order to swiftly carry out your instructions that newly promoted VC-10 Sqn Ldr captains were not to be accommodated in SO accommodation?
I would also counter that as a result of this knee jerk policy change, any insult and insolence suffered was not by RAF VC-10 captains but rather by all the other captains who flew RAF transport aircraft not on the UK civil register. The words lead balloon come to mind...