Two consecutive handoff deferrals on linked corridor operations have triggered an audit after supervisors concluded the pattern could no longer be treated as ordinary downstream congestion.
The concern is not only delay. Handoff deferrals concentrate risk because they compress multiple dependent systems into the same waiting interval. A route that looked manageable on paper can become brittle quickly when receiving infrastructure, custody logic, and burn timing all begin to drift together.
The audit is expected to examine whether the downstream systems were genuinely at fault or whether corridor planning had been leaning too heavily on optimistic assumptions about readiness. In practice, those questions are rarely separate.