Where have you been Bealine ????
"BA cannot afford, in it's present situation, to pay for the actions of third parties over which it has no control. "
Arn't BA part of The Airline Group who partially own NATS? and who has a major stake holding in the company. Therefore they do have some control over NATS. Ever heard of taking the rough with the smooth ?
Whilst the breakdown at Swanwick was unfortunate to say the least, the situation was even more severly compounded by the Brussels CFMU system crashing, and then again when it did come back on line, the failure of certain large national carriers to update their flight plans as requested!!!