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Old 5th Oct 2006, 07:06
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BALIX
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To be fair to Mr Barron 'twas not he who 'gave away' the NOTA, it was a done deal before he got the job. The argument went that we were not giving any airspace away as Shanwick's airspace isn't really ours anyway. Belive it if you want...

Giving away our domestic airspace is a whole different ball game, even if NATS and IAA become one big happy family. It would be a major undertaking to train up Shannon staff on the new sectors and an even bigger one to train ScACC staff on, as was proposed at the time, the Dublin TMA. I fail to see the advantages. The Irish would have the oceanic interface every day, no matter where the tracks were, which would allow them to better utilise their staff but as all that traffic would hit UK airspace eventually, both LACC and ScACC would have to be staffed assuming that the bulk of the traffic would be passing through their sectors.

The net result is no decrease in the number of staff required over the three centres so what is the point?
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