Coventry Traffic via BCN
Another example of intelligence by-pass from the ops office at London Area Control Centre Swanwick.
Apparently Birmingham refuse to offer a service to traffic in/out of Coventry and the Swanwick Controllers have been INSTRUCTED to transfer all Coventry traffic leaving airways at BCN to contact Flight Information. This is absolute lunacy!
In the event that three or four aircraft leave at BCN for EGBB/EGBE [ not at all unusual ] it seems less than safe to have any traffic element working a different agency to the rest.
What do you think?
By the way...did I mention the situation of a couple of "BCN joiners" coming the other way at the same time....that was fun!