Slot management & Flight Planning Specialist??
I would like to know everyones views on if slot management and flight planning is considered a specialist role within Ops and if so is it a good idea to have a specialist team working in it? The airline I work for is currently about to kick its dedicated team out of the seat and let others be trained up with the intention of swapping everyone around on a day to day basis.
I have worked in slot management for a couple of years now and consider it to be very specialist, getting to know and understand the regulations, airspace, re-routes, RCA and building up an excellent relationship with CFMU and LATCC and I for one am very concerned about the thought of letting inexperience and unqualified people jump into the seat and potentially ruin it all.
This airline flys a lot of short sectors and a lot of medium range ones through europe and whilst I am very much for training up new people I dont agree that our ops manager thinks that anyone and everyone can do the job.
Your thoughts please..............