LXGB:
What is the point of having a Deconfliction Service if your response to encountering conflicting traffic is to downgrade to a Traffic Service?
Do you really think that an ATCO would vector an airliner into an unknown contact on his screen? What if it was your family on board? Wouldn't you want the best available service for them?
A tad over-emotional in my view. The situation I was envisaging was pop-up traffic (hence not predictable by the controller), as regularly encountered by Norwich controllers (and I should add, in case you were in any doubt, highly professionally dealt with by them). And the response I was envisaging was similar to those in incidents 12, 13 and 27 in Appendix D of the ACP. Ultimately it's down to what the Ops Manuals of the airlines operating into Norwich say about the numerous scenarios they are likely to encounter around there.
NS