... that well, they operate on a budget. Today we were supposed to be traveling to Birmingham for a Charteris Day company gathering, and by we, I mean the whole of the team (well almost all) from the Edinburgh office. We arrived at Edinburgh airport to discover that our 08:45 flight to Birmingham was delayed until 14:15 due to, wait for it, crew shortages! I took that to mean they had no one to fly the thing. Gee, you mean if you want to run a scheduled route between Edinburgh and Birmingham, you actually need someone there to fly the darn thing? Tut, if only they could have foreseen that one eh? So, needless to say, we didn't hang around until 14:15 to fly to Birmingham for the day. Pity, being the new boy, I was looking forward to meeting the folks from down south. Ah well, there's always the next one eh?