London Lands End Sector closure
Be interested to hear some comments on the current situation in London. From today the Lands End sector is effectively closed with further amounts of traffic being re-routed into French and Irish airspace. This has built up over several months, first with westbound restrictions from French airspace, then with levels removed from Oceanic tracks with landfalls towards LND, then two eastbound routes suspended, and now almost all routes gone.
Is this all purely to do with Radar coverage or is there more to it?
And, more importantly, how is this going to affect the introduction of RVSM into London next Thursday?