Originally Posted by
Air.Farce.1
Like I said before, the "car park" is empty at weekends when ATC staff are working their b***s off
, earning the company a fortune. The same car park could be empty during the week and the company is still earning a fortune.....you get where I am coming from
Ahem, there are ATC staff working at CTC, even some operational ones. As I have posted previously just because you don't have visibility of the work the backroom boys and girls do doesn't mean they do nothing. You'd very quickly notice the effect on the systems you use if those CTC staff weren't there to support them. Not to mention how other things get done, like the move of AC and TC to Swanwick, the move of Manch and ScACC shortly to Prestwick Centre. Who set all of the systems up, tested them and got the place ready for occupation by operational staff, magic pixies?
I'd love to work weekends/nights and get paid UHP (and for ATCO's even if they've not held a validation for 20 years they still get NOS) but there is no requirement in my job, so I can't.
Air.Farce.1 your view of the company and work done outside of your tiny little area is myopic, there's an awful lot more involved in an ATC operation than just the bit done sitting in front of a radar screen.
BD