No Flight Crew Instructions at Ryanair yet for your info.
I am interested to know whether the EGCC constant IAS departures/arrivals helped ATC at all and is this idea goin to be expanded on at all?
On another note could this speed control be a good pre-emptive strike by your management in an effort to slow us down for the arrival of PRNAV RNP 1 operations? I suppose PRNAV SIDs and STARs will help reduce your workload whilst improving our efficiency too (ideal world stuff, I know). But to stay on PRNAV routes may well require this kind of speed control, I would imagine?
Is there a culture in ATC (from reading between the lines) of controllers who prefer to "control with the autopilot engaged" and those who "control manually" i.e. remove the protection of some of the system to help us out kind of thing? Surely it must be easier for you to leave us on the SID provided there is no conflict at the point you hand us of to Area?