The Sydney-to-Melbourne route experienced the most cancellations, with 13.9 per cent of flights cancelled.
The government’s air navigation agency insists it is adequately staffed to cope with a resurgence in travel despite being forced to implement landing restrictions on an increasing number of flights at Sydney Airport due to shortages of air traffic controllers.
Air and space transport remains down by 31 per cent on pre-COVID levels, the worst performing sector tracked by the ABS’s weekly payroll index.Airservices Australia, which employs the country’s air traffic controllers, rejected suggestions the increase in disruptions was due to insufficient air traffic controller numbers. “We have sufficient staff numbers to fill our shifts in Sydney and across the network.
But the president of the air traffic controller union Civil Air, Tom McRobert, said Airservices Australia’s focus on staff numbers misrepresented the issue. The union’s claims were rejected by the Airservices Australia spokesperson who said frontline overtime is a normal factor of a 24/7 operational business and actually on par with pre-COVID levels.
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