I would imagine that Sally has an open, one way reservation on the all flights from London to Wellington.
First they lose Biggin, then Southend and now Oxford, to lose one is unfortunate, but three is down right careless!
It appears that there's no new ATC work in the UK for Serco, as airport owners are coming round to that fact that if you initially invest a relatively large sum in training your own staff, it will pay off in the future.
Why pay a contractor to do that for you, when you can do yourself at a significantly lower cost?
A senior source within Serco privately admitted, on a recent unit visit that they are at minimum staffing, and could not honestly guarantee to fully staff every existing or future contract all the time.
In addition to losing contracts, it appears that a certain airport in the East of England, previously heavily wooed by Serco, has decided they don't need them, and unsubstantiated rumour has it that, regardless of any recent contract negotiations, Scatsta, North Denes and Hawarden may be under review by the relavant airport owners.
Despite the obvious financial benefit of the return from the buildings and land, I'm still convinced that Serco shot themselves in the foot by closing Bailbrook College. Many of their ATC contracts were "seeded" by airports sending candidates there.
Still, they know what they are doing....
