Originally Posted by
mike current
The trouble is, we've worked in that environment for the past 4 and 1/2 months, and it's not going to change over the winter.
What happens next summer, at this stage, is anybody's guess.
This is very true and also very difficult to argue against from a financial viewpoint no matter how strongly any ATCO feels. Nobody knows what the coming months will bring, the support role has been under threat both within and without NATS for some time, this may be the opportunity management have been waiting on to reduce the headcount. All well and good until traffic (hopefully) rebounds quicker than anticipated and then suddenly the duty ATCO gets a kicking with increased workload and no-one there to help. No doubt there'll be a risk assessment done which will help immensely...