Scuzi
I am all for taking them if we can, as anyone else in the room will do either north to south or south to north... thats the good thing about the TC ops room, we will try to dig each other out the poo.
I would just like to see the people who get paid to 'manage' actually think about things instead of doing it by wrote.
It's almost as if they think "Bugger, Its getting busy at LAM and BRASO, tell you what, the BIG1E worked the last time, i will do that*" without any recourse to what is going to happen on the receiving sector or seemingly without a clue as to what other options are available to them!!
*You can replace scenario with any number of others and the solution will be one that 'worked last time' even if the circumstances are different.
Coupled with the lateness of EAT/delay information, it makes me think that there is a lack of planning and forethought from some TM's and GS's.... there seems to be a lot of reactive decisions and not so many proactive ones.