Originally Posted by
DC3 Dave
The airport’s opportunity is cutting its wage bill to a bare minimum, but the government is stumping up 80% of that.
ATC and RFFS wage bills are very significant items in any small to medium sized airport budget. Having a 24 hour manned tower and fire station on call will be hurting the airport without the revenues coming in from the airlines. Can't see that the PSO flights are worth the effort of staying open. The night time cargo flights can operate without fire cover if they so choose and this would need just the one shift in the tower, saving 2/3rds of the ATC wage bill. Of course, if you send ATC bods home on reduced pay they are likely to remember this when the upturn comes in the months or years ahead. ATC bods have always been in high demand.