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But of course 200 jobs for a saving of $70million = $350,000 per controller. Either I'm being ripped off by my colleagues or someone's figures are a tad rubbery.
Those figures would be correct if the number of non-revenue producing staff were proportionally reduced. You have to remember how many over-paid paper shufflers in Canberra piggy-back on the controllers.
In a little-noticed move, the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services, John Anderson, has released a report
(That
champion of the rights of country folk)
the system will downgrade the service that air traffic controllers offer to smaller airports, raising air safety concerns.
How did the Minister for Qantas get in the press, in a
negative report?? About reducing services to the bush? Because of a factually incorrect report????
And Dick
"It's like the telephone system moving from a manual system to an automatic system.
If only 50% of people wanted to be able to both speak and listen on their telephone, and only 10% of people got a reduction in their bill. Of course, the remaining 90% (whose phones no longer ring, but are equipped with a flashing light to announce incoming calls, so that you may
see and avoid them ) will of course have to pay more for line rental- because the lines have to be there anyway.
World's best practice?
