Thanks all of you!
I'm very grateful for this advice. I think it may be best to wait until after November before I apply, which should bring me below 90 days for the previous 12 months.
It's reassuring to know that I generally have a strong case!

@vaza many thanks - without counting the travel days, an average month looks like being approx 7 days absence. So 7 days x 60 months = 420 days. Added to this will be holidays, which will be 25-30 days per year, totalling about 570-600 days. This is fairly well within the discretion limits the HO ha...

Aha, Apologies for posting this in the wrong place - I'm applying for British Citizenship.

Thanks very much both of you for your advice. This is really helpful. It looks like there is discretion for up to 900 days absence, and discretion is available for merchant seaman and suchlike - so this should cover cabin crew too, which is encouraging. The tricky part is my lost passport, so I only...

Hello, I live in London and work as a cabin crew for an international airline, so I am out of the country once a week for a maximum of 3 days. I've had an ILR visa since 2009. With Covid I'm obviously flying a lot less, but over the last 5 years I've definitely been out of the country for more than ...