I would be interested to know if anyone has had the same problems with airline operators as I have.
We all spend alot of our time helping, as much as we can, our winged friends make good their slots along with a lot of help from FMP. We often allow aircraft which are tight on their slots to push and taxi because we know what is ahead of them at the holding points and we know that we can find a 'hole' for them and that the good old tower man will think of something!! But far too often recently, companies have been adjusting the slots without any knowledge of what the traffic situation is because they are 200 odd miles away, resulting in considerable delays for the aircraft.
This then has to be relayed to the pilot (after asking him to pull his finger out to make good the original slot) and the blame miraculously gets redirected to ATC
Funny old world init
