Lets keep it real guys. Yes Ryanair don't sound like the best to work our butts off for (I have never worked for them so I am going by what i read) but they are here to stay for the forseeable future and much as they may be disliked by many they are keeping lots of us employed and getting lots of pax from A to B on valuable fares.
As for claiming compensation from NATS, technically yes they have paid for a product that they haven't received but the implications of a claim are far reaching. The major UK airlines that bought into NATS obviously would be foolish to make a claim. Yet their biggest rivals have every right to and probably will. This means that every carrier that had to cancel a flight operating to the UK on that Friday can claim against NATS (aka BA,bmi,Easyjet,Britannia etc etc...)
For whatever reasons (privatisation!!), NATS is in a mess and it's only the controllers that run it that make it work as well as it does. It needs to be sorted out once and for all!
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