All of this would certainly make one wonder; exactly how far are the IAA willing to push their control staff before something is done to sort this situation out?
What blinkered idiot decided that 6 shifts in 5 days is conducive to being well rested, particularly when the shifts all start at peculiar hours of the day and night? How have they gotten away with that gem?!
Does there have to be a hull loss and multiple deaths before somebody finally realises that something needs to be written into law to ensure that ATCO's are properly rested before coming on shift??
And if that means ensuring there are adequate staff on the books to cover all situations, rather than relying on goodwill and/or compulsory overtime, then so be it! As has been seen in the last couple of weeks, it is very easy for management to p!ss the goodwill of the workforce up the wall!
But then, that utopian ideal is not likely to happen when the entity that would be responsible for making and regulating/enforcing such laws is the very
commercial organisation that is at the heart of this problem!!
How have the Irish government allowed this situation with a self-regulating service-provider to persist for so long??