hautney, ta. So the only complaint you've got is the short notice of delay? Does your company take notice when voice this? ASA jumps higher than NicNat when Qantas bitches & moans, might be worth pushing it.
I was watching and listening to Emirates and Qantas 380's inbound to Sydney last week. The QF one was in front (by a reasonable amount if TCAS was to be believed) and the sequence put them behind the EK machine. The EK machine got sped up, track shortened and speed cancelled while the QF machine got slowed down, vectored and generally shafted. If the radio chatter was to be believed the QF machine had been in front all the way from Dubai. Blind freddy could have seen that the sequence didn't make sense.
A couple of things, the ATC's on that sector used to be senior & quite experienced, not so much any more. Any sector controller worth their salt would see that situation, have chat to the Flo & get those 2 flights exchanged. Any Flo worth their salt would have exchanged them prior to the sector controller having to call them. Those vectors, track shortening etc would have taken quite a bit of effort to ensure that a slot wasn't lost apart from the fact that you've got 2 crews that have been in the air for 14 hours.
You guys have got to understand that ASA (not necessarily the ATC's) genuinely believe that that they are the best ANSP in the world, they really do. There have been no real increase in ATC numbers over the last 10 years even though the traffic numbers have risen remarkably. The back office numbers have risen remarkably, yes really. I doubt that too many line controllers have any input into was goes on in these scenarios. After all, the back office (Canberra) are ATC haters.