Gosh what a prickly lot you are !. .As the thread starter,i dont believe that i mentioned anywhere about Flight crew being responsible for the dreadful waste of money that goes on, It was just an example.. .To my fellow ppruner I can assure you that no standby's were involved on Saturday. Just sheer, pure, poor management, ridiculous rostering, and shameful waste of peoples time and company money.. .Why didnt they report early Saturday evening if it was to protect the FDP? . .Flight crew to blame..of course not, but not a single member of the crew questioned it or flagged it up, something to do with allowances maybe ?? In THIS case yes it was flight crew, how about somebody from engineering or Waterworld giving us some good examples to balance the books.