Hi there,
as you may know, the company FerroNats (joint venture between Ferrovial and Nats) was awarded the opportunity to provide atc services at 10 different towers (no app/aps) in Spain. Apparently now they are having trouble finding willing and/or able twr controllers here in Spain who would accept 32k euros/year as well as the draconian spanish laws regarding atcos.
I've come across a rumor stating that Nats is trying to relocate some of their own twr staff to Spain, apparently on a temporary basis while they tighten the screws on the roughly 150 trainees who have paid 50k euros for an atco student licence and now balk at these conditions.
I'm grading this rumor as relatively low probability since Nats would have to offer any of their staff a hefty bonus to convince them to move for a year (?) to Spain, never mind explain them how they are going to handle possible fines of 4,5 Million euros... to an individual atco, not the company. Also this would not really solve the problem, just delay its resolution... although given that FerroNats was only awarded a five year contract (+1 year possible extension), perhaps that could be also an aim.
In any case, has any of you heard about it?
