DFC
A little knowledge is a silly thing.
The Government chose to impose PFI for the Oceanic computer relpacement, then chose to privatise NATS, then realised a PFI within a privatisation was nonsense and NATS had to extract itself from the contract the Government said was necessary.
The airline group decided to change the operating system for the new centre and put the whole thing back on the market. Those were the costs incurred. Not anything to do with the building itself and there was no litigation with the contractors or project staff who were then stopped because of 9/11.
So we suffered from government's changing their minds regularly and the effects of the worst recession in history. If we hadn't been privatised the government would have picked up the costs like most other countries. Hardly justifies your comment about NATS spending time and money in disputes.
We know there have been job losses and more on the cards. That is the "pleasure" of working for a privatised company taking a short term view. Unfortunatley for the grades affected they are all engineering and support and they have been hit hard and will be again. Meanwhile the irish are charging millions a year for operators sitting monitoring HF services which are declining in use each month as more and more airlines use datalink.
The whole point about the NOTA was part titled
giving away our jobs and when we give away more income to the subsidised irish service we will lose more jobs. Lets just wait and see when the true costs come out whether all the customers agree with you.
