Iberia/Air France, please hold for local traffic.
 

Please UK guys and girls, just the once, to really make my day, when working an Iberia or Air France on approach, could you tell them to enter the hold or orbit a bit (anywhere will do, the less specific the better) while letting the local national airlines get past and ahead. And don't be discreet, you can make it really really obvious, especially the more so by talking very fast, gabbling even, in an appropriately thick regional accent!
And the tower/ground guys, you can join in the fun as well! You can tell Air France/Iberia to hold on the taxi-ways for a while so that your local airline can push back, start up and taxi on ahead. And if you miss your chance there, better still, wait until they are at a holding point, and then deliberately slide a few more local boys, especially small turbo-prop guys, right on past them.
It will be fun for all, as the Spanish and French guys will be made to feel right at home so no offence taken there and the Brits will feel empowered! A win win situation.
Go on, please, just for once. You never know, it might catch on here and then we will really be on the true path to full JAA integration.
(not bitter and twisted at all!)

:) :ok:

Yes, very professional. :rolleyes:

And, if you practiced it for a while and made your experience, do the same to the Alitalia planes.

regards

As spanish ATCo I can not accept the accusations made by Mr Reed, usually I hear same coments from spanish pilots saying that in England Airports all local planes have preference in the approach sequences.
Probabily from cockpits it will be not easy to viewing the whole situational awareness or probabily those complaints are just nonsenses.

Dumbest thread ever.

Nah, dumbest poster ever

Fair point Lon.

Everybody knows Qantas is always number 1 :E