How do you get to Newcastle or Teeside without flying outside CAS?
Don't think that you can get an airway put in. The new structure for the NSEA sector actually crams the civil aircraft closer together because the military want/need a bigger chunk of airspace for testing and training with the Eurofighter etc. The increasing (yes, despite 11/9 traffic is increasing) number of civil flights are being packed closer together so a few military jets a day can have space to practice. If you object, then you will be told that unless they have this space then Air Defence is compromised. Wins every time!
FYI, the new route from Newcastle/Scotland to Amsterdam will now route down the coast almost until the Wash and then SE to AMS as opposed to the present route. I wonder what impact this will have on airline profitability!
Not content with all this, we spend a large part of our time on NSEA answering the phone to Mil controllers who are trying to coordinate their traffic (which has everything below FL245 and more than 5 miles from the centreline of UARs to play in) against civil traffic which is constrained to the two UARs. Tail wagging dog springs to mind.
