Just a (not so) innocent question.......
How long would it be, if a/c were being held on the ground due wx in the TMA and conditions at the airport were fine, before we started getting complaints from crews asking why they were being delayed. Many times we have had the situation where a/c ask to depart on a different SID, or they say they can accept radar vectors rather than a SID, or that they have had a look on their wx radar and 'it doesn't look that bad really, so can we go?'
Seems we can't win sometimes.