Another statement recently made by a female senior manager at Swanwick - there is no money for a bung to get ATCOs to work extra days during iFACTS training, just standard AAVAs.
Once upon a time I remember 2xAAVA or AAVA + 2DILS being talked about for each extra attendance throughout iFACTS training, this was if you agreed in advance to attending a certain number of days.
I hope that we don't give in to just accepting an AAVA for each attendance, after all NATS is desperate to bring in iFACTS. It would be such a wasted opportunity if we don't achieve something even better than the £820 a day we got for OCT back in 2001. £820 back in 2001 is worth over £1000 today with inflation, so that should be the minimum we aim for.
Surely we can use the iFACTS training to our advantage in the pay negotiations, NATS do need our commitment to bring in iFACTS and we should make sure we expolit every opportunity to make them pay for our help.