Av8boy – fair point. I was speculating of course and I’ve picked some useful info. Thanks to everyone for the interesting comments.
Fairly sure it was a –200 and that could explain a performance limitation, don’t know CIA. No problems for me saving fuel by using another runway. This was the case at the old Athens airport some years ago with 15L (saved fuel) and 33R (better for ATC), always picked up a delay, but my point is, we never blamed ATC for the delay.
Now my memory has been jogged, I remember earlier this year that EZY staff at STN blamed a delay on a “power failure at CIA” when in fact an air display was taking place (NOTAMed ?).