See my post of 2 July
Just shows that in a real contest, NATS cannot compete.They have been molly coddled by the UK Government for far too long.Manchester’s next, then Cardiff.
The “sad part” is that the Spanish owners of Gatwick have ignored UK industry and the UK ATC profession and awarded the contract to the German DFS which won’t allow UK companies to bid for ATC contracts in their country.
It will be very interesting to see the terms & conditions which DFS will offer to the current NATS ATCOs and what NATS can do about stemming the haemorrhaging of all their ATC contracts. The answer was probably in the 'Reids'.