So would a NATS takeover of Bristol ATC be a good or bad thing for either the end user (pilots/airlines), airport company or the ATCOs that work there?
What has been the experience of ATCOs at the few airfields that have been taken over by NATS? What do the members of Bristol ATC think.
My experience has been local authority/quasi-military and transport companies fancying their chances at a bit of transport integration before changing their minds, has NATS yet shaken off the civil service type bureaucracy?
I have it on excellent authority that NATS wish to take over Bristol ATC because they would like a combined radar unit for that part of the world to be there, why are they going down the subcentre route there when they seem to have done a U-turn at Manchester?