Originally Posted by
Itchin McCrevis
For goodness sake - there is no conspiracy just a monumental cock-up by the CAA for which nobody yet seems to have been held accountable.
The CAA made a botched attempt to privatise the service last April.Against the advice of many airports they sent the system live despite it being inadequately thought through, poorly specified and insufficiently tested.
Airports have been struggling to file their data since the off, those with huge resources to draw on are managing better than those run on a shoe string, some appear to have given up completely.
Most of the staff at the CAA who used to check, query and correct the data under the old system were made redundant in May, which is why they cannot go back to the old system (which for all its minor faults still delivered most information in a timely manner).
This whole fiasco will have great educational value in the future as text book case study of "How not to implement an IT data project".
Dress it up any which way you like!
We have gone backwards in time.
If staff - who did their jobs well - have been sacked, then rehire them tomorrow morning. The information we are getting now is a disgrace and not acceptable. Most private companies at the failing airports / airlines do not want Joe Public to be able to see these figures at a very critical time in history when we exactly need to. These are very basic statistics and so no I don't believe this is just a 'cock up' going on month after month. All too convenient to label these deliberate plans as 'cock ups'!