Between Melbourne and Hong Kong the other night. Around abeam Syd area we asked for direct to a point abeam Townsville (roughly parallelled the radar coverage), as the airways route was a zig zag path. Got told by controller that direct tracking not available due to a directive issued on 27 Aug. We asked for reference and the controller took the time to read it to us. We have since made a report via our compnay channels.
Shouldn't TAAATS be able to handle this?