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Big holes in Sydney air traffic control roster threaten busy holiday travel

From the Simply Marvellous Horse-pooh;

"Air traffic controllers at Sydney Airport are scrambling to fill more than 50 vacancies in their roster over the Christmas and New Year holidays, raising concerns about delays to flights during the year's busiest travel period.
The holes in the roster for air traffic controllers at Australia's busiest airport come after at least five line managers – four of whom were licensed to operate as air traffic controllers – took redundancy as part of 900 nationwide job cuts at Airservices, the government-owned manager of the country's air space".

Full article link below;

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/big-holes-in-s...sqaf5.html

Oh dear, the redundancies were meant to have no impact on safety hey? Aren't most of the redundancies meant to be 'back of house' with no effect on frontline personnel? Wasn't all this risk assessed? Didn't Harfwit and Sir Anus promise no adverse effects from the redundancies? Maybe Harfwit will pick up a headset over Xmas and help out? And sir Anus can do some program repairs to aircraft separation software and satellite links?

Tick Tock goes the Sir An(g)us and Purple Haze TIBA clock!