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I visited the place more recently and found a situation beyond credibilty....a raft of controllers and reliefs.....a Fire service doubled in size.....about half the traffic level....and the actual aircraft significantly smaller in size and passenger load. The economics of a mad-house.
Rightly or wrongly, depending on your point of view, this has been brought about by regulation, SCRATCOH and the removal of CAA derogations for the RFFS being the obvious ones. However, the airlines also bear some of the responsibility with their demand for longer opening hours and Sunday openings.