Australia news live: One flight cancelled every three days due to staff shortages; ATO employee charged with corruption-related offences
Sydney accounted for 103 of those.Just this morning, the troubled airport recorded 14 inbound cancellations and more outbound cancellations, after some overnight staff were unavailable, Curran said. Airservices and airlines manage the shortage by delaying or cancelling flights.Curran said Sydney had grown and now needed a team of 41 air traffic controllers, spread across the roster. It has 49 employed but eight are unavailable at the moment.
- ▪Sydney accounted for 103 of those.Just this morning, the troubled airport recorded 14 inbound cancellations and more outbound cancellations, after some overnight staff were unavailable, Curran said.
- ▪Airservices and airlines manage the shortage by delaying or cancelling flights.Curran said Sydney had grown and now needed a team of 41 air traffic controllers, spread across the roster.
- ▪It has 49 employed but eight are unavailable at the moment.
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00.10 EDTOne flight cancelled every three days across Australia due to staff shortagesLuca IttimaniWorker shortages have cancelled one flight every three days on average in the last year, Airservices Australia has told a Senate hearing.The government agency’s deputy CEO, Peter Curran, said Australia’s airports recorded 2,536 cancellations over the year to 31 August, of which 121 were attributed to Airservices. Sydney accounted for 103 of those.Just this morning, the troubled airport recorded 14 inbound cancellations and more outbound cancellations, after some overnight staff were unavailable, Curran said. Airservices and airlines manage the shortage by delaying or cancelling flights.Curran said Sydney had grown and now needed a team of 41 air traffic controllers, spread across the roster.
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