Lies, Lies and Statistics
Heard the other day at Luton: an aircraft of the "Spotty M" variety requesting push back onto an adjacent stand from the ground controller. ATC naturally wanted to know why, and the Captain piped up and said:"Bit of game playing really, our company likes us to push back on time!!" Seems to me that pushing back and waiting 45 minutes for your slot time to come around like the rest of us us is not quite an on time departure, no matter what you call it. Oh well, at least their on time performance statistics are good!