"The assumption by some aircrew that certain airlines or traffic gets undue priority from some ATC operators always amuses me, as it betrays their complete misunderstanding of what is involved in organising a heavy & complex traffic loading"
kcockayne as you say you are not a pilot and clearly have f'all idea of what goes on over the rest of Europe. Hence your amusement is clearly due to your own naivety and 'misunderstanding'.