"The amount of fuel saved on these descents is 3/5 of 5/8 of f**k all."
Shame really, coz it regularly costs you a slot in the sequence. It's always safer to make QF #2 now.
"Same one that was whinging that a 'domestic flight' had his optimum level over WA enroute to Melbourne"
And being WA it was probably a King Air with no Y or W??? Would appear they expect to be d*cked around near airports but have the desert to themselves