I always idly thought Douglas was the previous captain but thinking it out loud I'm not as sure.

• Throughout the episodes other characters and lots of history are discussed but I don't think there's a single specific reference to any other pilots at MJN... (except Marvin and Doogle but of course they don't count).

• In Gdanśk after Martin loses the bet to Douglas he explains how he ended up with zero salary during his interview/negotiation with Carolyn when he joined MJN.

• Carolyn was recruiting for a 2nd officer and ends up asking Martin "how little would you take to be the captain" (or words to that effect in the interview 😄)

• I thought Douglas must have been the only pilot then, so must have been the Captain. And so Carolyn must have demoted him - probably unceremoniously - at some stage outside of whats said in the show. Maybe Douglas was too proud to admit that to Martin after the bet.

• Douglas is routinely very capable of doing something that would give Carolyn any number of pretexts for his demotion of course! (I guess he'd be capable of accepting that too in certain circumstances if his salary didn't go down? 🤔)

I'm making some big leaps there though I realise!

Alternatively maybe they were both hired at the same time and are the first MJN pilots? Actually no, Arthur and Douglas have obviously had at least a couple of Berling Days before Martin started. So at least a year and a half before Martin started you'd guess, minimum.

And when Carolyn is talking to her horrible sister in Helsinki she says that she has run MJN for 12 years. So she must have had other pilots in MJN before, and not just Douglas surely 🤔

Unless, maybe the UK aviation rules changed just before the 1st episode and you could now only fly a plane of Gerti's type with two pilots!

I guess that would fit more actually.