Just heard the same thing meself. They think it may be shut by XMAS the way talk is going. Understandably the Management need to cut costs to try and save the company. To do this ,as everyone knows, you have to lean down departments where possible.Departments that are way too big:--for instance personnel springs to mind. Twice as many staff as the MT section!!! However FLS appear to be binning the MT in its entirety where in fact they should be increasing it in size. It has always been understaffed and the ground equipment in a poor state because of this.
What the bloody hell are they doing! It would seem that personnel is the only fireproof department in FLS. Bit odd really as it has the poorest performance/reputation.