Like the post Stone Cold I, but remember there are lots of other ways to waste gas! ATC "descend when ready". Surely that means descend now. Make sure you are stable at 1000' by judicious use of speedbrake and configure nice and early.
Quite frankly I am sick and tired of AH and Cor O'Leary telling me I must be shafted so that they can line their pockets with even bigger bonuses. For those of you from other airlines who think we are being feckless you are probably unaware of these facts.
AH's basic salary is some £590k. His bonus last year was an extra £1million on top of this. So his total remuneration is greater than that of MOL and Willie Walsh combined!
Don't get me wrong. I am all in favour of the company being successful. What I do not like is money being taken from my pocket to line those of the money grabbing city spivs!
End of rant