Not much to report, not much said!!! Also, not many people there - I counted ermmm no operational staff (if you were behind me and I missed you - sorry!)
December pay - will be paid before Xmas
Pensions Holiday - apparently just a rumour, BUT they are reviewing the pensions surplus. the unions are involved in negotiations....
I did raise the question of communication, and Ian Hall certainly looked as though he would take it on...
Most of the meeting was taken up with a presentation from a senior manager (Graham?) which seemed to me to be in an ancient dialect of Swahili, so I'm not really sure what he said. Upshot was:
Airline group borrowed £700m to buy us
Airline group has debt of £700m
Airline group owns NATS
NATS has debt of £700m
Mr Hall, if you are reading this - nice analogy with the house/wedding thing!
We have a charging system of RPI -x which cannot be changed, so we can't try and get more money for route charges...
I will now open the floor to questions...