Request vs Require.
For yonks all aircraft larger than an A300/B767 was automatically assigned 16R/34L for landing. Then QF and JQ A330s on domestic legs became eligible for 16L/34R. Since then we were told it was QF that approached Airservices to say that actually about 80% of their A330 movements (incl international) could accept 16L/34R... Sometimes they were going around in racetracks in the queue for 16R/34L when they could be on the ground much earlier using the less fancied shorter runway. This seemed to bring about a change late last year that all A330 and B787 international movements through the MARLIN (east) and BOREE (north) gates would routinely be assigned the east (shorter) parallel runway. The acceptance of this routine runway allocation for these types is very low, so it is farcical.