In my outfit we do have a statistic about how much delay due to ATC we have. It is in minutes per year. Since we know how fuel we burn per average minute it is quite easy to get extra fuel burned due to ATC delay. Additionally we fill in ACARS reports whenever we do not get the filed flight level, get a very early descent clearance and so on. So fuel burned due to ATC is something quite often used in political debates for example about a faster implementation of a true single european sky. The current status quo costs a lot of money, for no good reason at all.
Last edited by Denti; 14th September 2012 at 07:06.