"Unfortunately I get so embarrassed at times with some of the stuff that I see, that I was hoping to ignore oic's question and that it would just go away."
Not totally clear what you are inferring here Bedder.
I have no doubt that you do your best. I do. My annoyance is with the system that we are all a part of, hence my comments about the poor way in which KA/ATC manage these delays. As I said, I find it totally bizarre the way ATC can advise a 2 hour delay when you call ready and yet KA have no clue or at least they dont advise you (I suspect more commonly the case) when you left the office 45 mins ago of delays that have been ongoing for half a day.
So I guess I would like to pose a question - when ATC delays to PVG etc are running at hours long, does anybody from ATC contact the companies involved to advise them. Why does the information not get through to crews until "ready for ATC" calls.
As I said, there is one ATC controller that is partiularly unhelpfull and will not give away ANY info away until you call ready. Even just a hint as to how much delay previous traffic have experienced in better than no info at all.