YCKT,
The controllers DO push tin only.
If you come first in the sequence, second or last .... SAME MONEY.
As had been said frequently on PPrune - controllers apply the rules - they don't make them or neccessarily agree with them.
[You can therefore imagine their disgust when very legitimate heartfelt professional concerns about NAS were dismissed by Minister Anderson, Dick Smith, and even AirServices Australia as 'Industrial Scarmongering'. Remember: NAS meant more jobs not less, nothing to do with pay and conditions.... yet out it kept coming: 'Industrial Campaign!!' It all gets a bit tedious after a while
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