From AeroPolitics to Economics
The EU ATC Licensing is another important development for European ATC, FABS and all that.
The new licensing rules will remain an ineffective step until each state enacts the legislation/policy that requires that the new European Commission regulation is adopted by the local ATC providers.
Once enacted controllers will be able to follow the money and go and work in the higher paid locations if they want to - until all the vacancies are filled anyway.
Losing trained staff is what will drive the lower paying employers to up their pay rates, to retain people. This has happend in South Africa, where too many ATCO's have upped sticks to take jobs in the Gulf from what I hear. Basic rules of supply and demand can always be relied on to drive human behaviour..
From AeroPolitics to Economics!
Whoever said ATC was about managing aircraft!?
Katie