You will never "hold" at S'Pore, they will vector you to hell and back as the punters will still think you are "getting there" and not "waiting to land" so to speak. Political stuff I feel.
As for the intercept headings, they do appear to be a mind set and a little adjust is needed to allow for the infrequent winds that can occurr, trying to get a local trainee to adjust their heading 5deg from ATC's is like trying to win Lotto, once or twice in a lifetime??
As for runway allocation, as there are so many requests from the locals that are ,and probably WOULD have been allocated, you could form the opinion that favourites are allowed. The proceedures are one runway for so called landing, one for T/Off and generally works ok, I refused to ask and would have I guess had 30% or better a "favourable" change anyway. Sometimes other Airlines would get the nod and not me, so be it, I told the F/O that it all helps to get the hours, which was lost on most
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