We are not in a parlous state at all for next year, according to our esteemed leader:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2490425.stm
Not sure how we've managed to go from 30-40 ATCO's short this summer to only being a dozen short next year. Not much OJT going on and early retirements are still being taken.
In fact I'm sure that the latest staffing crisis numbers which I heard from on high a month agao were that we'd be a controller less next summer than we were this summer. Which makes us 31-41 less.
Hhhhmmm.