Absolutely , can't agree more.
You know what, suprises me sometimes how strict the authorities and training departments can be with the british operators , while the "visitors" get away with murder.
We get all the talk about noise, continuous descents, rate of climb or descent reduction when approaching your assigned level (which are all very nice and correct) and at the same time the visiting operators can bust levels and be rude as well (a minority of them I must add)
Years ago I used to operate to swiss airports regularly and the swiss airport authorities were very keen on sending us plotted charts and reports on even minor sid infringements. Anyone knows whether thats the way british authorities are dealing with foreign airlines?