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250 kts
I assume that LVNL is not a "for profit" business?
NATS have learnt nothing over the years about staffing. It has always irked the management that the staff they have in the summer are still there in the winter when the traffic is down by 50%. Everything is so short term in NATS and this knee jerk decision to give notice on the key agreement on redundancy is no different. Get out and borrow at a low rate and get all of the projects done that are usually constrained for 8 months of the year because of the operational staffing requirement.
They thought of that one back in the '50s.
'Why not detach all the winter surplus ATCOs to Australia to service their summer' they said.
Then someone asked how many were likely to return to the UK the next summer.....