Airport closing suggested
PA Auckland Air traffic controllers say they have a contingency plan > to call for closing Auckland Airport at nights because they are short of staff.
“We are absolutely at a critical point, things are starting to fall apart,” said the vice-president of the Air Traffic Confrollers’ Association, Mr Dean Dalzell last evening.
The senior air traffic services officer for the airport, Mr Grant Miller,
agreed that a plan was being considered. It could be required If staffing numbers worsened — "but I hope we are a long way from that,” he said. Staff shortages were however, a “matter of concern.”
Mr Dalzell said two senior controllers would almost certainly be lost to $lOO,OOO-a-year jobs in the Middle East, more than twice their New Zealand salary. He feared other staff would follow.
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Press, 28 January 1986, Page 9
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133Airport closing suggested Press, 28 January 1986, Page 9
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