Originally Posted by
Del Prado
You can’t take a DVR sector controller and plug them in on LAKES just because there’s a shortage on that sector. It’s like asking a Boeing pilot to fill in on an Airbus for a couple of days.
If you want to add an extra 5 staff for ATC standbys that’s a 17% increase in costs.
2. One of the previous pricing control period agreements for NATS (NERL) gave the choice to airlines of bronze service with low cost and higher expected delays, silver or gold service with higher costs and lower delays.
The unanimous answer was a cheap as possible.
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The point of the validations on sectors is largely misunderstood by outsiders and even some of ATC managers who are often just looking at numbers not validations., made even more acute with the recent licensing regulations with minimum numbers of hours on a sector to remain current.. This now an issue everywhere, not only in the UK.
On the second remark, same old same ; In the 90s when we set up the CFMU, one of the main discussion point was , do we build a system to cater for the peaks of for the average traffic ? Unanimous decision pushed by the airlines, to make a plan using average yearly numbers. So from the start we created a system that will cause delays during the peak demands, whether hourly . weekly, or yearly . Some have also forgotten that.