Tubby, with the airport running at capacity for much of the day we have to balance inbounds and outbound as far as possible. There may be periods when inbounds have priority (and times when outbounds do) but if inbounds always had priority the whole place would grind to a halt because there'd be nowhere to park them....and yes, it's happened. As for remote holds, they're quite frankly often a pain in the arse for ATC. The extra rt workload they generate is a problem and more often than not the aircraft moving to remote during peak times is just delaying other traffic during the move. And withe airport trying to increase the movement rates you can expect more of the same to come....