"-- AENA management plans to reduce delays by increasing sector capacity between 30%-60%, reducing horizontal separation from 8 to 5 miles, reducing training periods for new ATCO´s they plan to move from towers to ACC´s, and stablishing single-man positions."
@ p_perez: I can't see this helping the number of near-misses in the short term..thats for sure.
I have to agree with a lot of what Singapuranac is saying. The greed bubble has to burst. Too much overtime leads to staff shortages (and vice versa obviously), which leads to controller fatigue and eventually incidents... Employ more staff on lower salaries, slash the overtime and increase the rest days.
Hopefully the privatisation of the towers will improve safety somewhat, at least in the CTRs...