and its only fair that the guys who HAVE to work harder get paid more
Hope you don't get sent to a Band 4 or less unit then matey; and you're working your arse off as a trainee; and its been found out that you've made comments like that. You won't get much sympathy!! I don't know, not even at the bloody college and the ego is out already.
I think you'll find that every unit has a busy times; and that some are well higher up the complexity table than others, but get paid less.
Not that I want to start a Band war but in the old days you did Tower at the college first, then moved onto Area - because Twr was easier and quicker to validate on, plus some units you actually did all disaplines. If your theory is correct then no Tower should get paid more than any Area Centre, so LHR should be Band 4 or lower against MACC/Scottish (NPC if you like)
And; in the European Area complexity tables produced by Eurocontrol;
1. London TC
2. Zurich ACC
3. Frankfurt ACC
4. Manchester ACC
blah blah blah
28. Swanwick ACC
So Swanwcik should be Band 4 or less too
Its all peaks and troughs, numbers of aircraft etc that works out the pay in the end (plus Swanwick has more Union members that voted for the banding blah blah blah
)
In the end:
LHR gets the money coz it's the flagship Twr, Swanwick gets the money likewise Area; and the college gets Band 5 coz it needs to attract people to teach trainees.
As MACC, you'll know where I stand on it all
