We are a service industry - why can't we, like every other service provider, pass the cost of our pension (an overhead), onto our customer?
We have been PPP'd against the wishes and better judgement of employees, by a political party who swore blind they would not sell us off, and in doing so, we also get screwed for £600+ millions worth of public coffers debt, and at the same time, we capitulate even further by being told we should not be allowed to pass on our legitimate costs to our customers...
Complete and utter horsesh!t!!
We (NATS) are either a business or we aren't, what does Barron want?
If he wants us to be a business, then we should be allowed, like every other business, to pass on costs to our customers. If Barron will not fight the regulator to allow that, then Barrons' ability as a business mogul is seriously in doubt.
Either that or he is Kow-Towing to the regulator as it assists his mandate from Tony Blair, which is to shut the pension scheme down and make parts of NATS (namely NSL) fit for sale.