jocko
Are you saying for example that a brown field site could not have been found in and around Edinburgh with lots of incentives from the local council etc to make Nats relocate there.
Well yes I am saying that. Inward investment grants are under the control of the Scottish Executive and even they might have spotted that closing a big business at Prestwick and expecting the public to move 600 people to a more expensive place is not a great plan for wasting public money. The 100 plus Manch jobs are going to Prestwick anyway so who is going to pay extra to move them elsewhere in Scotland ?
The fact is NATS and good business cases dont go together.
Not all the time do they get it wrong. They did manage to spot that having an ATC Centre in the middle of an international airport is not exactly good business sense.
And your point about us not asking questions is absurd.
We have been asking questions for years and have never been told the truth. Not once have we been asked about our preferences if we were to be moved. As has been said we were even given the impression they might have moved half the sectors up and half down (and that was not that long ago).
I do apologise. When were these formal meetings and where are the management statements which contradict the announced national policy ?