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Old 12th Sep 2002, 09:17
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eyeinthesky
 
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Take up the Hold:

Short answer: NONE, since we do not at present have enough staff to open S33 EVER. In fact I know that on my watch we have NEVER been able to open S33, S11 and S10 all together since NERC opened.

This is what some people have been missing. The much-heralded increased capacity of NERC is nowhere near being realised because we are so short of staff. If we were able to open 33 and 11 and 10 we could offer something like 64 aircraft per hour through 11 and 33. We are presently only offering 30-odd (the combined 11/33 TSF), because we can't split, so the NERC capacity in that part of the world, 8 months after O date, is less than 50% of what it should be! Good, eh!
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