Ah, that's not good! I'm going to have to find a friend still working at BA that is willing to nominate him then. My son has a lot of travelling to do this year so his "coming of standby travel age" really has come at the worst time for him, financially speaking. Thank you all for your responses, if you happen to know anyone who by some miracle has a place going... do let me know. Assume I'm still looking for him in the years to come