Reaction to TCAS RA
Yesterday over Spain, busy time, ATC was handling about 12 aircraft simultaneously, several Spanish language conversations, suddenly a simple "TCAS RA" on the frequency.
Neither ATC nor any other aircraft reacting to the short and very unprominent call.
Since there was no further conversation regarding the incident we made sure it was not affecting us in any way, difficult as no info about location or altitude was available.
After about 1 minute the crew who declared the RA advised ATC that an ASR would be filed. There was no call of returning or continuing to any altitude.
Confused ATC responded that the clearance was FL230 and the conflicting one was at FL220, no mentioning of any action, no mentioning of any intervention, not showing any interest at all; as a matter of fact, we were under the impression that ATC was extremely surprised about the pilot statement and did not really know what this was all about.
TCAS RA is a very serious issue and needs immediate attention. The change in phraseology to today's simple "TCAS RA" can and does go unnoticed as seen yesterday. I doubt very much that this was the first event being handled or noticed like the one here.
Am I the only one who feels that the communication part as introduced about one and a half year ago does not provide the needed attention to attract everyone's focus on this very important issue?
Something similar to "PAN PAN PAN TCAS RA" would definately wake up more, if not all, who should get involved in the resulting action.