Standing agreements are there to facilitate maximum use of airspace with minimal co-ordination (via telephone) so as to give ATCOs more opportunity to spend time devoted to stopping the cigar tubes from welding themselves together. They are not, and this may come as no surprise to you, there for the benefit of the "customer
Did I miss something here?....I don't recall anyone else mentioning "customers"
Do you seriously think you would benefit from having every single ATC sector in the FMS, with every single possible standing agreement, which for a variety of reasons, all invisible to you, may not be adhered to on any given day?
Please!
Nooooo but it would also help us with our "tactical" picture and planning to have some idea of what kind of descent or whatever it is you decide we as "customers" require....
The fueling situation is bad enough as it is without increasingly congested skies resulting in reroutes and lower levels and time delays and speed restrictions and slot times combining to make the situation even more critical than it is currently.
You don't say?.....your not the one getting vectors and descents that haven't been planned for..thanks for that by the way...after all theres no such thing as customers right?
Crews would be clogging the r/t in even greater numbers continuously bleating about how they were "fuel critical", "possibility may not make it do destination", "would really help us if we could route direct", blah blah blah... "Do you wish to declare a fuel emergency?"
Nice to know you think so much of the aircrew that rely on your professionalism to help get their thousands of passengers to their destinations safe and sound.
What disgraceful comments..you should be ashamed of yourself
