escaped.atco The last tranche of operational staff voluntary redundancies was around 5 or 6 years ago and those were across the business, both at airfields and the centres.
It does not surprise me that they are looking to withdraw from the current redundancy agreement as it is very generous, so they will be looking to reduce that bill if and when staff are made redundant.
NATS currently has very little income as Eurocontrol has allowed airlines to defer en-route ATC charges.
NATS have also temporarily stopped paying into CAAPS (the pension scheme), at the agreement of the Trustees.
I feel for all my old colleagues who do a fabulous job every day.
The one consolation is that the government cannot afford to let NATS go under, however I fear the cuts are likely to be very painful.