Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
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....
I believe those that wished were put at the front of the queue when abinitio recruitment was restarted recently. Trainees have to factor in living on a minimal income during training for later reward and not all of the 120 would have been in a position to have another go.