Originally Posted by
elafrican
Thanks for the reply. I did read about taxitime also and that if needed, atco can change it according to the needs. But do atcos at very busy airports do that for every flight?
Yes. When sending a RDY message we always send RDY + X minutes, where the X minutes is assessed on the basis of the predicted time that it will take at that particular moment to go from pushback to holding point.