Zurich UAC transfer to Geneva UAC postponed.
The planned transfer of control of Zurich upper airspace to Geneva UAC has been postponed due to regulatory clearance being witheld.
This was supposed to occur tonight and has now been postponed until at least the 28th March.
Unfortunately all the controllers who are supposed to work the Zurich airspace are currently in Geneva having been transferred there in preparation for the move. They will now have to return to Zurich as rapidly as possible to man the sectors tomorrow (Thursday 16th March).
This means that there will be capacity reductions of 30% in Zurich upper sectors and 20% in the lower sectors until a solution can be found to the whole mess.
There could be fairly serious delays in that whole region until capacities are increased.
I'm amazed how something like this can happen! Anyone from CH care to add anything?