The ASA yes men are ONLY interested in "service continuity" - screw everything else. Gotta keep Albo happy so he can continue delaying the YSSY 2nd airport decision.....
Greg & Co have torn the guts out of the operational side of ATC. Tripled middle management with a flawed management restructure a few years back - never recovered. Wanted to make them more accountable for Admin duties among others. All under the guise of reducing admin staff, however as has been highlighted in an earlier post the hangers-on in Canberra are breeding at an exponential rate. Hell rumours are that they need a 1 (yes ONE) day course in moving from one floor to the next in the same building!!!
No questions, no investigations - just more band aids. Controllers are being compromised by this structure and the continued denial of the current problems - never mind the problems looming on the resource horizon.
They have re-jigged the measurement of staff numbers so as to justify the existing shortfall - the old "hire the consultant that gives you the answer you want" management theory.
NO, I REPEAT NO frontline controllers go to work wanting a front page BOS incident. They are being let down by an inept management that is living in denial and continues to use bigger and bigger whips so that everyone jumps as ordered.
Big tip of the hat to Ben Sandilands and Co for continuing to pursue this story and I hope that he can expose the truth before some poor overworked, under appreciated, under paid controller has a REALLY bad day.
Keep asking the questions!!