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Old 24th Jul 2013, 06:50
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It depends. Occasionally we can fly an entire 4-5 hour flight from across Europe and not pass overhead a single planned waypoint (ie, each and every one is bypassed by a direct routing).

It varies from day to day and sector to sector. Just from my personal observation, Maastricht does a fantastic job on coordinating direct routings, while in Spain you very rarely, if ever, get them.
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