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Old 4th Sep 2023, 20:13
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Originally Posted by Neo380
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NATS took £1.5BILLION in debt financing during Covid (and still sacked all 120 ‘apprentice’ ATCOs)!
a bit off topic but someone knows what happened to those 120 trainees. were they ever rehired now that traffic is back to pre-Covid 2019 levels ? If not , how is NATS going to cope with the planned retirements in the next 2-3 years ?.
That is one of the main issue of privatized ATC, no revenue,? reduce controllers workforce, , traffic restarts , no staff.as it takes minimum 3 years from recruitment to fully validated .Same old , same old....

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