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Friday 12 October 2012

SDP, low cost in ATC

When you accrue a debt of 13500 million €, you've obviously got to do something. Aena has decided to jeopardise safety. The cost reduction from swapping controllers with undertrained personnel from an engineering consultancy is actually peanuts compared with he size of the debt. Ground movements are left to the discretion of ill-informed ( and imminently under-rested) pilots. The consequence is depicted below and happened just a week ago. Aena struck lucky once again, i just wonder what would have happened if the broken bit had been a wing instead of the tail...

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