Originally Posted by
JimBall
Oh Beady - I'm almost taking your bait.
Excellent! So I'll take yours.
If you really mean that, then I am dumbfounded by your complete disregard for the economic engine that keeps this UK going.
The economic engine is that companies (etc) pay for the services they obtain from other companies (etc). If a company provides a service for which they don't get paid then eventually they'll run out of money and go down the plug hole. NATS is a substantial revenue generator for the UK in the service it provides to commercial traffic and for which that commercial traffic pays. If more 'private aviation companies' exploited loopholes by obtaining a service from NATS for which they don't pay then NATS would:
Either go down the plug hole
or
would be forced to approach the regulator in order to obtain exemption from having to provide that service as a part of its licence
or
have the law changed in order to be able to charge for the currently freely provided service.
BD