Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Good luck!! It sounds like an exhausting perspective! Flying within Western Europe myself so I fear to be fair game for cancellation/long delays when people on flights like yours get (most legitimately) priority with the few atc people working. I'm also in one of the time bands usually selected by our cgt and other friends for symbolic action such as temporary total block out etc. anyway on plus point if it gets too nasty I can leave the terminal, tube back home and say "sorry I tried!" while in cases like yours one faces no choice at all.
Here we go again. Overprotected civil servants making very good money and working a stupidly low number of hours, with absolutely no consideration whatosever to us mere mortals' daily concerns. Sometimes I wish there was a french Ronald Reagan .