Safetymike,
Controllers ask for more working colleagues, in order to provide safety. Because we (the ones with the coal face) know we MUST provide safety.
CANSO's idea is to train more controllers, without hiring them. In order to make supply bigger than demand, thus build pressure on working controllers to lower their pays.
Not exactly the same goal.
The tactical scheme seems to be the same everytime :
-1) Propose overtime against increased incomes.
-2) Stop new recruitments, as overtime makes them useless.
-3) When traffic grows, raise overtime.
-4) Wait for controllers to be worried when overtime/work conditions become unsafe.
-5) Launch a press campain against controllers. "Overpaid" and "irresponsible" are part of the appropriate wording.
-6) As Lake said, "Come what may"...
I wonder why IFATCA still works with CANSO ?
And why they seem to agree on goals ?
CANSO/IFATCA :THE NEXT GENERATION AVIATION PROFESSIONAL
Remove the "redundant/fallible" human part of aviation professionals, replace them by very clever and servile computers, disregard the dangerous complacency and lack of technical skills this will induce in too short a term...
I guess mathematicians have proven that the "very unlikely" resulting accidents will cost less than the price of a few qualified professionals...
