way to go Red Dragon, really couldn't have said it better myself.
NATS does have a near "monopoly" position at contracted out airfields of this size due mainly to a NATS controller driven strike-threat mentality.
As you say, we are all under the same regulatory body and working to the same rules and standards, but other companies do not stand a chance in hell of free competition when there is scaremongering and threats going on.
Having said that, TBI must have known what they were signing up to, oh and Paul Kehoe is an ex serco plc director and BAE systems manager - would he really be happy with something 'mid-range'?
