Originally Posted by
Ian W
It was intended to move the Scottish Centre from Prestwick to Swanwick, I was in some of the original discussions at LATCC and the then CAA House. Nobody believed that what was then called NERC (New En-Route Centre) would actually be built as we were still expanding the LATCC building with the new Military control room. Whilst I agree that redundancy could have been an issue, the idea was that there would be no single point of failure and NERC would be two buildings plugged together - Southern control room could back up the Scottish control room and vice versa. The real problem was political.
Oh sure there's always somebody brings it up now and then, doing so doesn't mean there is any actual intention beyond the table down south they're discussing it around.
There was no chance of it happening then, and no chance of happening now. Your resilience wouldn't cut the mustard either, the current two centre strategy does.