Christchurch earthquake - ATC exposure..
Airways Corp of NZ were strongly advised NOT to adopt the single centre NZ approach for this very reason, but then CEO Craig Sinclair was hell-bent on dividing and conquering the troublesome controllers at Auckland by moving them to Christchurch in the full knowledge that the most senior controllers would refuse to move and probably take redundancy. This has been a disaster ever since with low staff numbers and controllers struggling to obtain ratings in the demanding Auckland Terminal sector.
I'd be interested to learn how well the Christchurch Centre withstood the earthquake -were there losses of service? What plans are there for a total outage of the single Christchurch center given there are no other controllers in NZ qualified to work these sectors?