Switzerland's air traffic control company, Skyguide, has reduced by 20 per cent the amount of traffic it undertakes to monitor in the wake of last Monday's fatal air crash in southern Germany, which has left employees in a state of great stress, the firm said.
Skyguide official Mr Felix Hitz said the new workload, which came into force at midnight on Friday, would continue until further notice.
Skyguide, a privatized company, was in charge of two aircraft over southern Germany, a Russian passenger plane and a DHL cargo plane, Monday night when they smashed into one another high over southern Germany, killing all 71 people on board.
Fifty-two of the dead were Russian schoolchildren who were headed for a holiday in Spain.
The disaster has highlighted a number of problems with the Swiss air traffic control system. The lone controller who was at his desk at Zurich airport at the time of the accident has since been in a state of shock.
AFP