Air traffic controllers from the Regional Air Navigation Center (CRNA) and the control tower at Blaise Diagne International Airport (DIASS) in Dakar have announced “restrictive measures” in air traffic to demand a reduction in their air traffic load. work at a “level reasonably manageable by the workforce”
Air traffic controllers say in a press release published Thursday, January 2, that they have taken this decision “after having raised so many alerts, and demonstrated so much resilience to manage the airspace of nearly four million square kilometers under their responsibility with the maximum of professionalism . »
“The Dakar Regional Air Navigation Center and the Diass Airport Control Tower are encountering major difficulties mainly linked to the advanced obsolescence of the technical means used for the provision of air navigation services,” underlines the text.
Gathered in an extraordinary general meeting on December 12, air traffic controllers declared “no longer able to manage the air traffic entrusted to them in a safe, regular and orderly manner.”
They are demanding the activation by the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) of the exceptional measure plan or contingency plan.
“Failure to do so, we reserve the right to take measures restricting air traffic in order to reduce the workload to a level reasonably manageable by the workforce and technical means currently available,” emphasize the air traffic controllers.
Through this press release, the air traffic controllers denounce “the glaring lack of staff that has been deplored for several years and which was already the subject of demands during the September 2022 strike led by all ASECNA air traffic controllers. »
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