just look at the portal..over the last month half of the flights departed after 0811. EK are really taking the piss once again.
If one of us has a prob enroute are the company going to turn around and say "its ok...we planned you into discretion, we'll support your actions" or will it be " well sorry you're fired, you should know that you can't depart knowing you were planned into discretion. what were you thinkng"
the other option is take 6 tonnes extra and go high speed then there is no problem.
EK 201 in theory has priority with atc, however they don't seem to know it. last time I operated 201 we had a taxying time of 27 mins...
Next they will combine the patterns and give us 18hrs in New York.
keep discovering.