Since this thread had a suitable title, and in the interestes of keeping all the Heathrow related questions in one place I thought I'd use it.
When giving a taxi clearance to inbound aircraft, why do the majority of controllers not seem to mention all the taxiways? For example "Left on Alpha, stand 106" rather than "Left on Alpha, Juliet, stand 106".
Adding the name of the taxiway on which the stand lies would make my job a bit easier, because the stand number no longer gives a clue to its whereabouts. I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind this operating practice.
'Course if it was my train set, I'd divide the airfield up into little sections (let's call them "blocks"), then I'd give each stand a letter and a number....!
G W-H