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The Fight over Flight Delays

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Air navigation service providers, Air traffic management, Airlines, Airports

The war of words over European ATC strikes and their impact has gone up a gear. As with any war, truth is the first casualty. The winners, on the other hand are the consultants paid handsomely to do studies, the final results of which, surprise! always seem to accord with the views of the people that commission them. At a joint press conference in March the European Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination and the European Transport Workers’ Federation – the two principal air traffic controllers’ unions in Europe – released their study on the reasons behind flight delays. It was a response to a similar study Airlines for Europe published in June 2016. The A4E study was undertaken by PwC and examined the impact of ATC strikes, based on 167 strike days between 2010 and 2015. Its headline was that strikes had cost up to €9.5 billion. The study predicted that, unless the situation is rectified, the cost of strikes in 2015-2020 would be roughly equivalent to the GDP of Malta. The aim, of course, was to foster political antipathy for ATC strikes and the controllers.

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