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DROPS
No doubt the higher interest rates over the past 12 months have encouraged the uptake of voluntary overtime. But if even in that environment big chunks of airspace still can not be serviced in accordance with the requirements to provide an ATS, one wonders just how desperate things have become.
Constant overtime is ultimately a negative - sickness, social dislocation, fatigue, operational errors, burnout. Anyone intelligently managing a group of people knows that
I spoke with a former Air Traffic Controller who worked an extra 40-50 shifts a year. They recently changed employers, a different culture, different environment, different expectations and sufficient staff. They said the difference was staggering.