If the present procedure is safe why extend controlled airspace even more and restrict and increase the costs to other airspace users who would have to avoid it.
True. Maybe the ANSP should push that anyone who receives a service from them should have to pay for it. Why shouldn't a zone transit which I guess is requested to avoid track mileage not have to pay for that short cut?
It's time the whole Solent area was redesigned to enable the operators who have no choice but to pay for the service provided to be given a more efficient and therfore cost effective service.