what also happens in the Don is that a significant amount of qualified people (techs, (including spanner wielders/backseaters/ATc/photogs) and pilots) are employed in other jobs or are on long term courses and are not doing the job they originally joined to do. Such a thing is much less obvious or tolerated in the airline industry. The Don has usually been able to cope with manpower shortage because it can drag people back from their other jobs/courses/sports if it really has to. By any standard, the Don is overmanned in certain areas or the rostering does not absorb manpower like it should. Apart from that, refusing to use contract employees is another issue.
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