actas
Dee Mac is right. We do our job in spite of Management, not because of of it.
Alstom Air is seeking to diversify into a global expertise provider, lots of travel and expense account lunches no doubt. Meanwhile the poor bl@@dy infantry will continue to sweat their nuts off holding up the home front.
I am a little vague on what exactly NATS is supposed to be tasked with these days; this is a result of a less-than-perfect [ and certainly unclear ] divorce from the old CAA. Empire building and self-engrandisment has left NATS with not just a core business of Air Traffic Service provider but a service company with much of the old regulatory and R&d workload that it had pre-separation. This suits both Goverment and CAA alike because all the "fringe" costs are disguised in NATS' charge structure....it also explains why NATS has such a bloated non-operational workforce far in excess of what is required for a pure ATS provider.
Perhaps you can understand why operational staff who have pride in their professional work ethic might want to steer clear of the short-term cancers that plague our sacred territory from time to time.