Originally Posted by
pilot1957
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Thanks for your point about alt not being notified via Flt plan if IFR. Do you know where I might find a formal reference to that? Is it Europewide or just UK.
A situation that arose was in Italy and initially the FBO refused and hence as you describe ATC refused. FBO person refused because they were ' a little busy' that day and on their own, not because there was any parking or other issue.
The FPL forwarding is done by IFPS. You or your agent addresses it only to IFPS and it's up to IFPS to send it on, however you could try asking the agency who files it for it to be addressed to your alternate too.
The situation with a VFR plan is that you address it to destination and if you fill in an alternate, AFPEx will automatically send it there too; not sure about other systems like Skydemon though.