Reply to BrATCO
I don’t want to get into an argument, but if you think that ATC were justifiable then they could have been more verbally helpful in informing their intentions. Keep everybody in the loop.
RWY 26R departure to east. No. 2 at the hold at approx 1130 local time.
Then three AF regional jets taxi down from terminal and take off from int. in front of me. Even the last had pushed back whilst we had already taxied to the holding pt.
All small size A320 and smaller.
No idea of their destinations or CTOTs.
We did not have a CTOT.
Northerly RWYs in use for T/O too.
After the third regional jet taking off call to ATC to confirm that we were READY (again). Unfortunately the reply was not informative of our posn in queue so had to say that 2 + another 3 A/C had already departed so how long would we be waiting?
Now 45 mins from P/B and all taxi fuel used. (2.4T/hr)
Yes I have heard of Flt Plan adherence, and we also wished to adhere to our flight plan too.