Poor airspace management, regional willy waving and antiquated procedures in UAE need to be addressed before we embark on telling the world how clever and environmentally friendly EK is.
Cart before horse alert.
Absolutely, without doubt, nothing-even-comes-close, hands down THE SINGLE BIGGEST THING that could affect "the green footprint" of EK is in EK's hands.
schedule for minimal delays I dont know how many times it has to be said before someone gets the message, but ANYTHING you do after that is just dealing with symptoms.
Scheduling, say, 45 arrivals an hour for 4 hours a day at an airport with capacity for 30 arrivals an hour, is just Guaranteeing (capital G) that during those 4 hours, delay management tools will be employed. Now, you can bitch and moan about the delay management tools, but as the people who have the power to schedule away most delays is EK, it sounds pretty stupid. Just whisper in the scheduler's ear that no more than 30 arrivals per hour may be scheduled and- poof, like magic!- 90% of delays will vanish. Imagine what the
PR machine could make of that!!
You sound like homeowners lighting fires at your own houses then leaning on the fence and bitching about what bad jobs the firemen are doing.*
*It has often been mentioned on these boards that the chief fireman is the great dane who makes the firemen use water pistols made in Copenhagen in 1976 instead of firehoses; but he knows best- just ask him. But lets not go there....