Palma was a joke this morning.
Everyone getting slots (according to ops they were departure restrictions at Palma, too many departures) roughly an hour after STD. Nothing at the holding point for about half an hour or so, nobody able to leave on schedule because of the slots.
Then...everybody pushing and starting within minutes of each other, to make the slots, by the time we got in the queue we were number 15 for departure and over 40 minutes of engines running and going nowhere slowly. Similar types getting airborne with 3 minute spacings. 757's being put in front of ATR's and the like. Oh yes and we got airborne about 20 minutes after our slot time.
Fantastic use of slots there chaps! Much more efficient.
