52049er
However, BA's policy is to use a set of centralised load control centres (I think there are 5 - New York, Joburg, Hong Kong, Berlin and London) to finalise the churning of the figures the dispatcher has in their hand. This saves the expense and licensing difficulties of keeping several hundred individuals around the world
Let me guess... In the best BA traditions in order to avoid paying several hundred indivuduals (not full time, surely) you have set up 5 centrlized load control centers, spent several million (if not dozens) bucks on software and equipment, rented facilities, then suddenly realized that those 5 centres all togheter employing over a hundred full-time staff, few levels of management etc and finally the cost is actually higher than it was for local guys at the stations, but it is too late because investements are big.... And the system works not so efficiently too... Another day, same story...