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Absolutely, I think that's a perennial and essential quality when dealing with air travel, if one is being realistic. Thank you for reporting back, it's always interesting to know how things worked out in the end, and unfortunately sometimes those of us who follow this forum never finds out what happened. I'm surprised that the Twitter DM wasn't followed up, generally it gets good results for this sort of thing, but at least in the end it was clearly resolved with you online.