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So you are suggesting that an Austrian AOC (under JAA) is inferior to a UK AOC (under JAA)? How do you work that one out? No such thing as an English AOC btw.
As far as not de-icing, I find that rather hard to believe - it would show up at their first audit. Same goes for landing whilst an approach ban was in place - the aerodrome tower is required to inform the appropriate authority if that happens, and it would only be a matter of hours before the AOC postholder was carpeted. Do it more than once and you can say goodbye to your AOC.
I have regularly changed types and timings - for example when stepping in for a tech Q400 - and it has never taken more than a few minutes to get going, unless there were existing slot delays. And that was always done via Ground or the Tower. They simply do what your company ops should do.
You obviously have an axe to grind with Euromanx. Personally I have no feelings either way, but some of the stuff being posted here is pure b*ll*cks.