Anotherthing, "I know Gatwick wanted to up their game regarding number of movements this year... looking at 60+ per hour throughout the day. This was all dependant on information sharing systems and technology developed by NATS. Obviously they will not get access to this now unless they pay, which will in turn make the DFS contract more expensive than the headline figure that they have tendered, unless of course Gatwick owners decide they do not want more movements per hour, which I doubt."
Surely that's up to GAL if they want to get involved in improving things. Presumably DFS are simply contracted to provide ATC. Any increase derived from whatever systems from NATS would have to be extra funds from GAL if they deem it worthy?