Nastynas,
I would suggest that the ATSA's will hang around in the hope that a large redundancy payment appears- there are not many jobs around here that pay as well
Bummer for the staff that have served with dedication for many years but are too young to contemplate retirement.
Ayr_man,
unfortunately NATS don't take the enlightened view that the IAA take- I noticed recently that they had taken someone who may otherwise have been made redundant and placed them on a controllers course- 'sink or swim' I guess, but better than no choice at all.
Unless you know differently, the only ATCO task that ATSAs soon take on will soon disappear once EGPH get a strip printer. Its hardly a task that demands much thought anyway- just a knack of being (two) one-armed paperhangers!
