The losses that airlines are dealing with are colossal, the sorts of figures that probably most of our high street businesses would already have collapsed from - yet the government seems content to watch it happen, strange. And no, I don't know the answer to fix it! The government today is apparently talking about another full lockdown, more pressure on aviation.
The airline losses will be impacting the airports financial status who in turn will be looking for cuts. Whats the biggest expenditure of a typical airport? Anyone want to take a bet that ATC provision has to be near the top of the list in most cases? Whats the biggest expenditure of a typical ANSP contract? That'll be those pesky expensive controllers, to quote from Game of Thrones - winter is coming.