Originally Posted by
jollyrog
Traffic Service. In words only I suspect, they had no interest in me whatsoever, other than for their own purposes.
I'm rather sad that you have that opinion about my successors and/or ex colleagues and puzzled that under TS you weren't warned of the traffic.
I can only assume that LARS West was bandboxed with approach (something which I always opposed because it was so difficult to predict when you would need to split the frequencies and have an extra controller standing by) and the workload got too high. In such a case, the controller gives priority to Farnborough arrivals and departures, but that's no excuse, the Watch Manager or Senior Controller on Duty should have been there to assist.