Originally Posted by
Dan Dare
You could find that the Area [sic] controller is rather more expensive than the local controller in the tower. Who's going to pay their cut for approach provided by Farnborough when you’re already complaining about the cost of Shoreham ATC approaches?
I can assure you that Farnborough controllers cost considerably less than controllers at Swanwick whether they are Area or Terminal controllers.
NATS salary banding puts Farnborough on Band 1 (lowest paid) whilst Swanwick controllers are Band 5 (highest paid).