Originally Posted by
eglnyt
I must have imagined the scrutiny applied to the NATS Investment Plan at every licence renewal. Maybe it was just a bad dream. Similarly the need to halt the investment programme at the start of the pandemic because without income there was no way to fund it.
If it turns out the system, which is still unknown, didn't have appropriate fallbacks then any inquiry should examine why that is including any issues about funding any resilience required.
Er, ‘no way to pay for it’. Now I do believe you’re actually NATS Corporate Comms team eglynt!
NATS took £1.5BILLION in debt financing during Covid (and still sacked all 120 ‘apprentice’ ATCOs)!