BHANSA remains without professional staff. Eight of the 11 air traffic controllers decided to continue their professional career outside of BHANSA. Do we have enough air traffic controllers to monitor the skies of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Three of the 11 air traffic controllers decided to stay and continue professional development in our country, the other eight decided to continue their professional career outside BHANSA.
BHANSA says that they respect the individual professional decisions of their employees, and note that improvements in the material standard of operational staff are foreseen, including salary increases for controllers and other operational staff up to 25 percent compared to last year.
The departure of a certain number of air traffic controllers from BHANSA will create challenges in the organization of work, but with internal reorganization and appropriate measures it will be remedied in order to maintain the quality of work at the highest level, according to the Union of Air Traffic Control in BiH.
VINKO MALNAR, President of the Union of Air Traffic Controllers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Even after this increase in the salaries of air traffic controllers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, they are still significantly lower compared to the salaries of air traffic controllers in the region, especially in Croatia and Serbia. It is precisely this difference in income that is probably one of the key reasons why part of the staff decide to leave, what do they have. When I talk about the salary increase, I want to clearly emphasize that we welcome the efforts of the BHANSA administration, headed by director Davorin Primorac, to improve the labor and material rights of all its employees, especially controllers flying. Any salary increase is more than welcome”.
The relevant minister also commented on the departure of the air traffic controller.
EDIN FORTO, Minister of Transport and Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina
“It is very bad for us to contribute, I say, the state of BiH is saying that we should contribute in any way so that people do not want to work in our agency, but to go to Qatar for double money. If the management is criticized and attacked because of some political matters, if something can be done better, of course that is what should be done”.
The Commission for Traffic and Communications of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina has scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday of BHANSA management, BHANSA director Davorin Primorc and deputy directors Sanjin Hadžiomerović and Tomislav Marinković.
The purpose of the hearing is, among other things, to determine why the management of BHANSA, contrary to the Law on Parliamentary Oversight, refuses to attend the sessions of the Commission, and why the requested materials about the financial operations and employees of BHANSA were not delivered to the Commission even after the emergency.
