Flight Number Call-signs - Using Group Form
Not sure about this change a few years ago but the change to procedure of making a readback with the callsign
at the end (if you bother to add it at all....) was made at the behest of ..... you guessed it....... Qantas.
Some tosser of a capt even wrote a letter in the safety digest exhorting us all to try it out as it was SO MUCH BETTER than the accepted and CORRECT method at the time of callsign at start of transmission. Qantas had been doing it with callsign at the end -the incorrect way- for years and the bad habit began to spread.
A bit like leaving your taxi lights on at Sydney whilst at the holding point...... beaming into the eyes of the domestic across the other side of the runway.
So what Qantas wants, we all get. Strange that they cared so much about when to say the callsign since they so often don't bother to include it in their own transmissions.