On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:08:20 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
In message , at 09:54:18 on Wed, 19 Jun
2013, d remarked:
But they don't work with them closely - they may exchange a few sentences
at most during a departure and thats it.
There's the haggling for a departure slot, the taxi-ing, and at the
other end, landing. En-route they talk too.
More to Swanwick than the LHR ATCs. I'm not sure who they haggle with
for departure slots -- probably it has more to do with congestion on
the airways and the destination airport, so it may not be Heathrow
Controllers they speak to. I think once they have their slot, the
local tower's job is to help them get to the take-off point on time.