Bex, you're absolutely right. But I think we have to assume that there is no great financial reward available. So we have to think of other things which MAY be acceptable as a short term sweetener prior to,hopefully,gains from the forthcoming re-structuring.
There is no doubt they are in the s**t and let's be honest if there is little improvement this year there is a real chance NATS will go under. That is no good for anyone-most of all the operational staff as the managers will be gone with a nice pay-off.
So for those of us with 30 years to go-do we bite the bullet and help them out with the potential of something next year or possibly let them go under??
We need to think a bit differently in terms of recompense eg. we are owned by 7 airlines that happen to have lots of seats-mainly at the front of the plane!!- available most of the time. Would this type of recompense be acceptable as a one-off?
I don't know the answer to this summer but don't fancy taking the chance that we are owned by the mob from Basingstoke if it goes wrong because we were reluctant to see the longer/bigger picture.