Originally Posted by mateyboy
Also wasn't allowed to take off till The scheduled Off block time.
That's not new. It has always been like that in Spain. It's in the Spanish AIP: no take-off before filed EOBT.
Look at this discussion:
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/275...fore-eobt.html
Why it is like that? I have no idea, but my best guess would be that "the guy" who wrote the spanish AIP was not at ICAO English level 4, when he was reading the original ICAO papers.
Are Spanish ATC really among the best paid in Europe while being (one of) the worst on the European continent? What a waste of money, I'd say!