Originally Posted by
OVC002
AIUI Eurocontrol charges are levied on the flight planned distance. If no route is filed how do they work out the charge? Do they just draw a straight line between origin and destination?
If so, we can obtain much better "ATC" value by flying a wildly circuitous route!
That'll teach 'em.
As discussed above (by me) the charge is based on the CFMU-ready route that would take you from departure to destination.
So if your "planned and accepted by CFMU" route was through the LTMA and over the top of Heathrow, but ATC actually routed you around (npi
) you'd be charged based on the planned route, not the flown route - despite having spent more time and more miles "in the system"