Originally Posted by
ETOPS
This holding is far more damaging than tankering and I did try to avoid it by slowing down en-route but arriving at the back of that queue still brought the dreaded " take up the hold at Lambourne - maintain FL 160 - at least 20 mins delay"..........
Nail on head sir. And the way around this - have a third and fourth runway at LHR. Often the MAN-LHR flt time is doubled due to Monday morning holding. Very frustrating.