HEDP,
You may remember a short while ago a policy known as 'Hub and Spoke'....actually, not a short while at all, we've been doing it for years.
The problem is that at home, the hubs (our Stns) are all being closed down or seriously limited on Operating Hours, and that most of the 'Spokes' are either deployed, Leaned or ageingly decrepid, so what what the customer gets is an apparently inflexible and inefficient service. About as inflexible and inefficient as a Navy without ships, or Paras that can't jump!!!
Whose fault is that? The AT world only 'drive the bus'. The roads and highway code are somebody else bag (sadly!).
How many times must it be said?