Those were the days

Airport security used to be much more lax than nowadays. My girlfriend after a visit to me in London was catching a plane back to Belfast. We arrived late and were refused boarding. She appealed to the supervisor, mentioning her father's name who was Senior Air Traffic Controller. ""I'll get you on if you don't mind travelling out with the dispatcher on his truck" I was thinking how funny it would have been. if he'd been sitting in his control tower, watching his daughter breaking the rules.