back to article Air traffic 'glitch' grounds Sydney flights

Sydney airport was in chaos on the first Monday of the Australian state of New South Wales' spring school holidays, after air traffic controllers had to revert to manual operations. Operations at Kingsford Smith airport were almost completely shut down from the time its curfew lifts (six in the morning) until after 10:00 today …

  1. Tim99 Silver badge
    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: So

      you don't need staff to cover when someone goes off for a smoko, or a coffee break do you?

    2. TReko
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      Re: So

      No that's got to do with preparations for privatising it and selling it off to Macquarie bank, because they're doing such a great job with Sydney airport.

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