I think a lot of people will just not move house, see if they can ride the storm out, and rent a bedsit up there, meaning they will do a whole lot of commuting. This in turn will mean that NATS will not be able to rely on the usual people to do AVAs, as they will be back on the M6 to see their families; more people will be sick/ tired/ late for work; and in the in the 1 to 1s in the near future nobody will have a clue what they are doing, so will be unable or unwilling to commit to NPC. Why should they? They haven't had the decency to tell the ATSAs how many of them will have a job yet.
The rumours of a bung are rife, will it be 5 grand will it be 80, nobody knows, it may well be nada, or may be announced so late that everybody already left. I am quite sure the Airline group have not been told about the potentially catastrophic delays they will face if MACC goes up with 70 controllers, although the credit crunch may help paint over that if airlines keep pulling routes and going bust.
Some employees at MACC, as above, are finding that the GSP will simply wipe out any equity they had, if not even producing negative equity (IE deposit), and as such they simply cannot afford to move. Nobody in their right minds would think of selling in the next 9-12 months unless they were on bread and water. The TC move happened just in time for the controllers, and NATS are now sat on some negative lumps of property in the aftermath, they will not be risking that again, hence the horrendous GSPs that are being dolled out at the moment.
The move was already going to be difficult enough, will be an interesting few months ahead, can we pencil in a pension strike for O date? Oh, wait a minute, it's not a date is it, it's O month. A year to go, and the vagueness continues!