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ATC
Tom and Co,
The reason for Cork airport closing is due illness. No other controller is willing to come in on their day off to keep airport open. The controllers are doing this to highlight the staff shortages since early 2000s and the IAAs dependence on overtime."
10/28
Not a good enough excuse that just cos one guy is sick you are going to put a whole day of operations at Cork in disarray or indeed at any other irish airport and in the process cause major inconvenience to how many thousand passengers!. I dont care how long the issue has been going on for with the IAA and I dont see how the action will solve the grievance. By the way the news reports make no mention about illness etc so the atc guys are not doing a good
pr job for their side of the arguement.