Yes, 10/28, by not presenting the case to the Cork travelling public as it is with a controller being out sick I think an opportunity has been lost for some local understanding for the ATC controllers side of the case. A missed opportunity, really?
Still, though, how many staff does it take to get departures off from Cork up to 8 am when operations are due to return to normal? For the want of a better term does Cork ATC have any management controllers available to help out for the short few hours up to 8 am to get the airliners into the air?
What is the position with cadet ATC controllers - how many cadets are taken on every year by the IAA and how many qualify and where do they end up working?
Still have a sense though that a hastily arranged ATC shutdown would not be implemented as readily at snn at such a critical time between roughly 6 am and 8 am with inbounds descending in off the ocean.
Then again, I am always suspicious when it comes to anything to do with snn. Cant help that!
Not the best of weeks for Cork - the last Central Wings from Wroclaw was last Tuesday and the final Warsaw also from Central Wings is on Saturday.
Budapest - gone!
Wroclaw - gone!
Warsaw - gone not once but twice from both EI and CLW.
Phew! A lot of ground to make up?