DM and LS, how could you be so beastly to your "betters"? The other great wheeze on 48 was to set ECB power and beat the TC crew to the air conditioned accommodation at Kai Tak. Not that I could ever be involved in such shenanigans of course.
The reason for the rapid promotion of VC10 captains to scrapers was that Freddie Laker's recruiters were signing up PVRing ones in their squadron's crew room. When banished from the station they set up shop in a pub outside the main gates.