sn26567 wrote:Nevihta wrote:sn26567 wrote:Belgocontrol strikes again. Liège unavailable for arrivals 15.30-17.30 UTC, 17.30-19.30 local time - ATC staffing problem.
Source: Eurocontrol
It looks like we are living in an underdeveloped country!
Please stop this misinformation.
Have you seen "strike" in your Eurocontrol source (If so, I'll be the 1st one to apologize...) Do you have a link or something ?
It's not a strike, it's a zero rate due to understaffing.
So it's not only for the arrivals, for the departures as well, and for VFR etc... except SAR, hospital etc...
Please try to be complete and objective in your informations, and separate them from your own opinion.
And for your information, it's been happening almost every day this week..
I never wrote ATCOs were on strike. When I write "Belgocontrol strikes again", strikes is a verb: look in your dictionary what that verb means.
Maybe I should have written "Belgocontrol hits again" to avoid all misunderstanding.
So if you want to play the word, have you seen that I was defending ATCOs on strike ?
To strike, in any of the definitions means a voluntary act.
One of the real problems is : in such a critical environment, how comes there is no standby service ?
Consequence being : as soon as someone is sick, there is no backup plan. In a company with 300 employees working shifts, without rest on a stressed environment, what's the probability to have someone sick, say at least one day out of 2 ?
During those latest years, staffing has been reduced to the very minimum (and the new agreement tends to reduce it even more), so 1 sick people immediately has a huge consequence.
Oh, and you might be surprised that those zero rates are arranged (essentially at night) to accommodate with TNT traffic to hit (or strike) them as less as possible.
You would also be surprised to, even if it was possible, there is not enough militaries to take over.
And last, but not least, during those 3 weeks, not a single proposal was made from the management, except contingency measures, I mean not even a long term solution...