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This strategy would save them having to issue food vouchers at the airport, but not delay compensation per se which is based on arrival time at the destination gate.

Or even worse, they load all the passengers into a bus and... just leave them there for an hour or so. And of course the buses are packed with most passengers standing.

Seems simple enough to stop that - start requiring compensation to be paid based on takeoff time.

Shouldn’t it be based on arrival time?

It is

The airlines tend to avoid paying compensation by making the whole processes as confusing as possible. What the rules actually say has less affect on the outcome than you might expect.