BugsBunny - spot on. I'm fed up as well! There's a certain UK charter airline that employs staff on the ground who always disappear when there's trouble. They have also developed an annoying habit of hanging about the stand pretending they know whats going on with the turn-round and generally getting in the way - very annoying.
Admittedly it doesn't happen very often but there are pilots who will recognise a fast turn-round and say so (Pegasus and Eurocypria spring to mind). On the other hand, one UK pilot radioed me recently before take-off and said, (quote):
"Congratulations on the worst turn-round I've ever had." There's no satisfying some pilots - he was off chocks ten minutes early!!
We Ops staff just can't win sometimes can we?
