The contract itself may not make a loss but when you factor in the NSL overheads and wages of all the people who work for the company at CTC and NERC etc it is a different matter.
They are surely the same overheads as at other Nats units within NSL though.
We pay the same overheads but still make a healthy profit.
However Manc did have numerous managers, safety being an example, which other airports do not, plus numerous ATCO1 +'s. Are/were these people essential or was it the fact that NSL at Manc considers itself a large unit because it resides in the same place as the NERL controllers?
If the contract will break even, or even make a loss then the money has to come from somewhere to fund the loss. Are the controllers at Manc NSL, in this current climate, desperate to stay within NATS or more likely desperate to stay at Manc. Plenty of other airports short of controllers within NSL or stay put and work for MAG or whoever. Just my opinion but i don't believe that if Nats had lost the contract then there would have been a mass exodus of the people in situ.
Why should they now pay over the odds when Manch has negotiated a better deal.
Bad times, here we come!
Damn right.