Pilots who don't listen out.
How do controllers and assistants feel about this ? I don't work in ATC but I am in an airside role and heavily involved with aircraft turnarounds. Increasingly I am noticing ATC making repeated calls to a flight that's approaching its push/start time, the flight crew aren't listening or just don't hear and they end up missing their slot or find out that their flight plan has expired! I have often had to call the flight crew over the ground headset and advise them that ATC is trying to raise them and they sound so surprised to hear that. I think I'd find that at least tiresome and at most irritating if I was in ATC, especially if the flight crew had previously established contact and then 'gone silent'.
Thankyou.