We called the duty officer...many of us called the duty officer. We were told that Brainerd or whatever his name is, is in charge of the AOC facilities. He is that old british guy in a tie that I think runs the flight coordination interns or something. He made it quite clear that we could not get the rooms. Let me remind everyone that there were exactly 6 outbound flights in the morning. So just about every sleep chair in the whole place was full with almost all of the sleep rooms open. Yep, been gone since before xmas, got off a ten hour flight, watched Dick Clark wish me a happy new year and then got denied. I was pretty tired and slightly grumpy at the time and fortunately didn't say anything I would regret later, but just don't get the reasoning here at all.

The pilot sleep rooms should be able to be used by sleepy pilots. It's pure BS, don't know how else to say it. ***?