Spartacan
Far better that the controllers were off sick than at work in an unfit state
Absolutely .... but where else in the world does a major international or domestic airport running at 110% capacity as a norm drop to 80% capacity due sickness?
My point is not aimed at the guys at LHR who do a fantastic job, day in day out at maximising the utilisation of the 2 runways, but at the management who cannot provide the numbers of controllers required. By all accounts the London weighting allowance paid to the LHR guys falls well short of that required to attract people of the right calibre to work at LHR - too many course failures???? The cost to the airlines may be relatively small but the point is that we are paying for a service which is not being delivered.