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One other side of the coin (there are so many!) I dont reckon controllers will have public support. Not because they dont deserve it, but because of the following:
"Surely anyone can wave ping pong bats around?"
"Well I'm not flying from a NATS tower so I'm ok"
"They only need one in a tower - there must be one!"
I am at the tail end of the recruitment process, and these are things I have had said to me (or to that effect)
Most members of the public do not know the existence of "En-Route" - it is all tower.
The remaining members of the public think ATCO are the ground staff who direct the aircraft around... (surprisingly quite a lot of people).
The select few (usually people who have been through the process at some stage) know of differences between en route and tower, but think 1 or 2 people keep an eye on England, and there is 1 in each tower to make sure they get off to sunny Spain on time.
Unfortunately the lack of public understanding of the gravity of the situation, combined with the fact that you will ruin a LOT of holidays means that if a strike were to come around, you will not get support from the public.
Unfortunately, you are the people with a nice swooping radar, who were in Die Hard 2, Pushing Tin and in the 2 Aeroplane films... now why are you striking? - You are film stars!
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