Originally Posted by
Nemrytter
What happens if all airlines do this? You'll end up with every inbound aircraft declaring an emergency and then get into a hell of a mess. No matter if you've declared an emergency or not there's still a limit to how many aircraft a runway can handle in a given amount of time.
Then maybe the regulatory authorities will wake up to the fact that airlines (and the environment) should not be made to pay for bad ATC management, bad national transport strategy and obstructive regulation that stops new ideas - technical and commercial - being introduced to the industry.