The guys that were fired would’v all be retired by the mid 90’s so what exactly is their point? And no I don’t beelvie the union ever required 2 ATC overnight when only 3 flights in are on the schedule.IMHO they need to put in some sort of simple alarm that starts sounding the moment the plane is within miles of the airport.
Bingo. Under these low workloads, it's little different than being on call.
IMHO they need to put in some sort of simple alarm that starts sounding the moment the plane is within miles of the airport.
VERY GOOD POINT, but you have to remember one thing. This is the government, and just as I teach my students, the govt doesn’t do anything efficiently or effectively. Early in the space program, our crews had a hard time with the ball point pens not working in zero gravity - we spent millions attempting to fix it, where the Russians simply took a pack of pencils and a sharpener....