Over+Out,
Thanks for the information about stack swaps, I have to admit though we are increasingly getting late requests for coordination (although I understand the stack swaps talked about on Saturday were done before the boundary).
If S13 and S14 are split then I will not as S13 planner agree to a lower level for BIG1E if either S14 is busy and/or has EGKK arrivals as we need to coordinate the descent with them.
I think more planners are starting to do this therefore we need to be told preferably by KEGIT or BULAM - any later and we are becoming more inclined to hand the aircraft over as per the standing agreement RFD and RFT for TC east to sort out. If it's quiet then we will do our best, but stack swaps and quiet don't really happen together very much! This probably doesn't help you very much to achieve FL130 by TANET but I have to protect my Tacticals as well.
This was discussed with the guys on Saturday I think by one of our LASs