Originally Posted by
PukinDog
Do you know the makeup of their airspace constraints? Do you know if other aircraft had to hold before LH arrived? Ground stopped and finally released? Why is there an assumption that LH ws unique in experiencing some sort of delay? The only reason for this assumption that somehow LH was singled-out for a delay is because someone posted a YouTube video.
I’ve no clue about any of those things because after about 300 comments we haven’t had anything at all constructive or useful added from that angle, just a load of conjecture that DLH should have done a visual approach - which they could have done apparently! Just not a parallel, paired approach where they’d be responsible for separation.
The second, rebuttal video didn’t offer any of those mitigations you mentioned, just it was busy and that DLH was treated as though it had asked for an opposite end approach - something that would incur a significant delay for everyone - despite the fact it’s request would only mean a single gap created in the same way a go-around would.