The FODM has been functioning as a travel agent for U-hires for the last week. One of them spent 2 hours or more, at least, trying to figure out how to list me on a flight. To him, thank you very much.

U-hire commuters must be pulling their hair out. Luckily, I only had to do it once.

At least my jumpseat date of hire has been fixed. For the last 9 months it was 31 Dec 2013. Any pilot who is hired this month could bump me off the jumpseat.

Now, if I could just list.........