Last Sunday was a prime example. Aircraft holding for 45 min and then having to divert due to HK ATC freaking out. Their excuse.... weather. What a crock of Sh!t.
Well we didn't dream up the weather. It was you sooks who wouldn't go near base leg for almost an hour! I don't know why half of you bother having IFR ratings the way you all dodge around the pi$$iest bit of cumulus these days.
As for the steep descents, it is ICAO, IATA and the companies that are screaming at our procedure guys to design these "optimum" descent profiles- 5% they tell us- no problem- we can do it. Sure- it seems you can if you're the only one in the sky. But when you're number 34 in the arrival sequence and asked to slow to 230, the whole thing goes for a ball of chalk.