What if the period of notice was less than 48 hours, considerably less?
Then is it appropriate?
How about just for once an ATCO thinking about the bigger picture?
Those who did go in for an AAVA knowing there was a zero rate applied could easily have done the responsible thing by contacting the ORO (who may well have been pretty busy doing other things) and actually asking if they were really needed for the duty. That way we may be congratulating them on their pragmatic approach rather than asking for them to be put on a black list. I believe all of those that are cancelled are now promised that they will be given priority for the next one anyway.
What sort of person would have the bo***x to actually go in
I have to say there are some real "users" amongst the ATCO fraternity nowadays and these type of actions do us no good whatsoever. We do have one that managed to do all of his AAVAs in one year and then had the nerve to write an open letter to his colleagues telling them that the rate wasn't high enough and that they should stop doing them immediately.
