Managing delays
Schlong Hauler
Re your comment - This is interesting because what we as pilots think of as weather holding fuel ATC believe is theirs for traffic flow delays. I don't believe this is correct. As far as I'm aware ATC still consider weather induced delays and traffic induced delays separately. The problem is how do you separate traffic delays resulting from more aircraft in the system than can be processed, from delays caused by weather, when one directly impacts on the other and the outcome will be a combination of result from the two. At least you no longer have the situation where ATC added up the likely maximum delay resulting from traffic and added the delay for Tempo or Inter to give a total maximum delay and issued a traffic holding advisory on that basis.