Air New Zealand says it will have to cancel 25 regional flights each week because air traffic control tower staff will take lunch breaks from Wednesday.
If the towers go off watch for the controllers to have their meal breaks wouldn't the zone revert to class G airspace for this time?
Why would services be canceled just because of this? I think Taupo, Hokitika, etc are all uncontrolled and Eagle operate to these destinations.
Or is the journalist confused between controllers and pilots?