Whilst I appreciate that Scot Civ priority is to look after their traffic inside CAS, the whole episode didn't really sit right. Yes there was lots of Mil traffic north of NEW and south of EDI, but the EZE flight in question was at FL185. The clearance to join at NEW was for FL180 and then route towards HAVEN. The airway doesn't even start to FL205 on that portion of airspace, yes that track is outside of a TRA but even then Class C doesn't start to FL195. So it just struck me as though the provision of even a RIS however limited seemed too much like trouble and therefore a bodge was put in place. The EZE flight would not have entered CAS until it reached the TMA.
My point is that under a RAS the pilot may be offered a re-route because of the amount of conflicting traffic on its planned track. Then it is up to the pilot to decide what to do. In a way this was done but in a far more brutal way.
I am not having a go at anyone, just opening up the debate.