Definately well done
Felt sorry for the poor man on delivery at around 1630 local as everything went pear-shaped, but did he loose his cool - no!!
Just kept everybody in the picture - with humour - as to what was going on, whilst being battered by non-stop requests from flight crews who were obviously concerned about missing slots. I hate to think how his desk must have looked at the time - I suspect that the normal means of displaying strips might have gone out of the window and that he just had various columns depending upon the direction of departure. Was it 30 plus I heard at one time waiting to start?
Congratulations to the Air2 controllers who kept a fantastic circulation of aircraft under control. Not very often that one gets so many aircraft lining up, looking at their radar and then deciding that caution was the better part of valour and therefore clearing at U1 to return to the hold.
All in all a very professional piece of organisation.
Scottie Dog
ps- you guys and gals deserve a large drink.