Well thanks Michael O'leary. You have either -
a. Exposed a great airline scandal and the £50 that each of the airline group would make out of this financial restructuring will now be denied them.
b. Shown up privatisation to be the complete con that most of the aviation world knows about and the politicians ignore
c. Forced the management of NATS to spend yet another year defending, to politicians, something the politicians will force them to do anyway while the operation slides further into chaos. :o
d. found a way of hamstringing your major competitors so much they will fail financially because you can expand your non UK bases while they get stuck in the decreasing service provided by NATS.
e. won the undying respect of the whole of NATS staff who see you as the only person willing to challenge the governments of Europe on the impossible practical application of ATC privatisation - and while this rumbles through the European courts will lose their jobs.
Whichever of the above is true the immediate effect will be a serious delay in NATS restructuring and along with that all the investment needed to update the ATC system which before privatisation was on track for major expansion and now is on track for serious operational problems which will last for decades.
Thanks Mr O'leary and Mr Blair.