Regret
Sorry to be brutal but NATS has never had an "economise" reality culture, the thought is totally alien when viewed against the evidence. The best description I can come up with is......imagine a magnificent Greek Trireme with three banks of oars....the lower level is manned by operational staff and the upper two banks of oars are management.....the rudder fell off some while ago. NATS has been unable to shake off much of its earlier identity as both regulator and provider, the separation of task was incomplete. Much of the work undertaken should be done by the regulatory Authority but because NATS is a monopoly provider of Area services the work is still done by NATS at NATS' expense. Only when NATS restricts itself to being a pure direct service provider [and nothing else ] can there be any realistic economy, but the result will be many job-losses. Over 39% of NATS controllers don't control aeroplanes at all.