eyeinthesky,
I don't see the reluctance to give the shortcut a lack of flexibility in the system or myself. As I said I will do it only if it is very quiet.
If the system as a whole is to work to capacity then it is these type of reroutes which will have to go. We must keep the phone calls to a minimum, not put traffic into the teeth of the outbounds and not compromise the streaming which LMS may have in place for the Midlands inbounds.
In my first reply I forgot the 2 possible phone calls involving EHAM so there could be upto 6 internal calls to save one aircraft around 15 miles. Sorry the end just doesn't justify the means anymore.
I guess I'll take some stick over this but sadly it is the way it has to be to shift the traffic efficiently. And why should one operator benefit from this short cut anyway? I don't see us making all these extra calls to cut the corner into LUS on a regular basis-just when it is very quiet.