For all those 'Airbus haters' out there......Having throttles that move clearly does not increase your situational awareness of thrust activity to a foolproof level.
For those followers of the Helios accident it seems yet another 737 system has let down a crew that were working very hard.
I did not want to say it before but I get the impression every time I visit AMS that every other word from the controller is 'expedite'. Perhaps there should be less of that. There must now surely be inescapable evidence to suggest that CDA approaches are safer and that dumping everybody down to 2000' to start their approach will bite back someday.