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[pfc90]

Hello everyone, this may seem like a stupid question but i have just come back from holiday and i am just wondering what the man that finally leads the aircaft out of its parking space and gives the signal for the pilot to leave, i have been told that this is called the dispatcher, but ime not sure.

thankyou bi

[owaoot]

Did he wear a headset and wave a red tag at the flight deck. It sounds like he was part of the pushback team. Some places this is done by the despatcher but not where I work.

[GEE BEE r2]

we call them a pushback team one who drives the pushback and the other is the headset man . But i have also seen despatchers do this aswell

[older_wiser]

At many regional airports the dispatcher does this, but it is not normally a dispatch function.
At Lhr it would either be one of the pushback team, the ramp supervisor or the engineer depending on the airline

[Ckin Gal]

at our base it is one of the pushback team.