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The real question is:
How do we get more ATCOs on the seats?
More ATCOs are needed.
Or are they?
I am confident that more ATCOs can be recruited.
And will be recruited.
It is a matter of will, time and attitudes (about the costs that ATCOs "represent").
The second question is
Which costs more?
Twenty tons of fuel of an airliner or the salary of an ATCO?
To the ANSP the salary costs more.
To the customer of the ANSP (airlines) the fuel costs more.
More direct routings, more optimal profiles, less costs of fuel.
More sectors open, more optimal routings.
More sectors open, more ATCOs needed.
Last edited by Slo Moe; 8th May 2008 at 11:50.
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