Originally Posted by
MCDU2
Simples. Everyone is on board and you want to go early but you cant cos your handling agent has dumped the loadsheet in the cockpit and fled off to the next aircraft and they won't answer on the VHF frequency to bring forward your TOBT which in turn generates you a new TSAT which is "hopefully" closer to what the actual time is now when you want to go. OR you are running late and miss your TOBT and TSAT and again no one answers the VHF so you sit there and go out of hours.
Its a great system. Must have been designed by Germans.
Surly going out of house is down to Shamrock HQ and tight restoring, it happens far to often without such a system in place!
Canary islands, a mere 45 min delay to these and more often than not they get cancelled.
Anyway at DUB I suspect overall it will be positive.
Most people will not know what this entails, perhaps a description of what it is/does would be helpful.
Perhaps, basally a method to improve airfield efficiency and resource allocation. Better communication with all parties which in turn will lead to better resource usage and little things like DUB will no longer apply a standard taxi time but rather a customized one and it won't be a case of first come first served with departures, they will be sequenced in a way to minimize taxi time etc.