Something else to remember White Knight, whereas it does wonders for a pilot's ego to arrive fast down wind, shut the throttles, dump gear and flaps whilst using speed brake, lose all your excess speed in a turn to finals so that you can sit there fat, dumb and happy, on centreline and slope at 500 feet, Vref +5 etc. it may not please your pax and cabin crew in quite the same way! When asked if you can accept an early turn in or similar you also have to consider if you can do it without any discomfort to the pax and also give the CC a fair chance to get the cabin secure, because you can't land without it secure unless it is an emergency.