Afternoon short/ 8 am starts
What does everybody think of the above shift ?
We had a situation the other day where we only had 6 controlers for 4 positions, two of which had to leave at 8pm because they were in at 8 am the next day.
The main problem being that certain sectors cannot be bandboxed at 8pm due to traffic loading, leading to the possibility of controllers going out of hours.
On the day the problem was resolved by raising the TSF to 4 above the recommended level before 8pm in order to shift some of the backlog.
Surely this cannot continue, running sectors above TSF with the absolute minimun number of controllers required.
Answers on a postcard please.