thanks Henry.
Well, to the other ppruners out there, is this normal? I'm in Europe very infrequently, but it does seem that "flight plan route" or "as filed" is not the terminology I recall. Can those based over there comment on the format of a clearance one usually receives?
Is in normal to just get a clearance to a nearby enroute waypoint, and for the crew to then just proceed flight plan route without further instruction?