Standby for cuts...? No, I don't think so
We have a new boss. NATS is taking on a winner in time-honoured fashion, from Alstom if I'm not mistaken. The troubled French company,which built the £550 million Queen Mary 2, owns two train-care depots, one of which is at Eastleigh....Gosh!...that's quite handy for Swanwick. Debt laden Alstom was bailed out by the French Government last summer after racking up debts of £3.2 Billion. Now if we could get our government to apply such policy to NATS there would be no problem supporting layer upon layer of management. By the way Sonnendec, you hit the bulls-eye with your post..too much money is being spent in areas away from the day-to-day delivery of ATC services....money which comes from the customer. This additional expenditure is touched on by "Minesapint"s excellent post, and in my opinion should not be charged to the service provider.