In fairness I can only attribute one day of disruption due to UK infrastructure and that was because of Scottish having some phased upgrade.
Almost all restrictions are due to issues on the mainland. Everything in the UK is fairly logical. Check out all of the Madrid or Barcelona departures and the ground set up at these locations and you can see just his bad things can get (MAD must have 40+ SIDS). All in order to protect jobs in their bloated public sectors.
I don't operate from the south east so maybe I'm shielded from the worst of it. But UK aviation does very well without government subsidisation.
Look to the mainland and a lot of it is publically owned and things are no better at all.
Some days flying through a bust London sector I'm frankly AMAZED at what an amazing job they do. They do an amazing job and I'm sure we are truely thankful of their skill and the service they provide. Go to the mainland and things quickly fall apart very quickly despite them earning a hell of a lot more than ours. And let's not get started on their vectoring! Privitisation is not the cause of the issues. Bloated publically owned or heavily influenced services are.
With London or Scottish there's no ignoring calls, there no thirty second delay and then "uh, station calling.....", requests are not met with " uh, make that with the next sector". Whenever a request is denied by London its because of the mainland restrictions on the mainland.
NATS are still renowned for their operational excellence which is why they're seen as the gold standard a provide some services abroad.
I know its a la mode amongst the luvvies to talk Britain down. But lets put things into perspective.
Last edited by HeartyMeatballs; 14th July 2016 at 20:15.