Absolute pain of a morning shift, loads of flight plans coming out but few getting airborne, London City fills up, lots of level capping and bizarre reroutes to try & avoid NERC sectors, then Pease radar has a wobble, saturation of SSRs due to the vast number of a/c still on the ground at EGLL, NERC preparing to go to SwIMM mode, was talk of going to SwIMM at 3pm local.
As usual, operational staff at the coal face kept the show running but we're all getting a bit fed up of this now. Pax, airlines & NATS own staff are being let down bigstyle every time these problems occur, I dread to think the reputation NATS is getting with the flying public.