Originally Posted by
alatnariver
I have another question.
..... after switching to ground control we requested start and push and were advised to stand by. .......
After a couple of minutes we called ground control again, stating that we were still standing by for start and push and we received the same response from the ground controller as before. .....
After another couple of minutes we called ground again and asked again for start and push and received the same response as previously.
.......
To make it short our next request was „succesfull“ and we were instructed to push and start up.
.....By the way, we were perfectly on time according to our ATC flightplan.
Are you a bit thick or something?
You asked for start and push 3 times in a 6 minutes and were told to "stand by". Obviously there WAS a reason - not just shear bloody-mindedness.
It sounds like the controller finally got fed up with your constant bleating and after the 4th request thought "stuff you - taxi if you like and go and hold somewhere else".
As Throw a dyce says, many of the restrictions we have are imposed by the Mainland, not us, and change at short notice.