I have, i've seen the long range radar but that still doesn't make the choices that are made the correct ones at the time, they may have been the correct aircraft to choose 200 miles away but that doesn't make them correct when we get told to stack swap. It needs to be sorted over europe so that we can do it early or done in TC's airspace.
As for the big picture, recently we were holding at LOGAN, and TC rang up and said the next one that was going into the hold was a stack swap and was needed at 220 so TC could get it under BRASO. This was at FL300 10 miles from LOGAN with two in LOGAN, how possibly are we going to do that? Stupid call from someone very clearly not looking at the "bigger" picture.
