BBC Breakfast at Swanwick

[atcomarkingtime]

Good to hear the BBC are taking Declan to Swanwick for his financial reports and a chat to Mr Baron.....loved the comment from "someone" on NATSNET asking if there will be a fight staged in the background like Granstand did for an April Fools joke years ago....and are the teletubbies going to be on display!!!!
(WEDNESDAY 0600-0915L)

[ZOOKER]

BBC = Barron's Broadcasting Company!.... Bring on the swimming Hippos .

[Del Prado]

Will 'Andrew' be there?

[slip and turn]

Will Andrew be there?

Why? Was Declan's jolly morning arranged as some kind of quid pro quo for Tom Symond's / Ian Shoesmith's reports of 20th March, do we think?

[The Obvious Choice]

They're Fimbles !!

[chevvron]

Strange how NATS co-operate with the BBC when in the past the BBC have refused to co-operate with NATS eg 'The Day Britain Stopped'- they refused to give NATS a preview in spite of its high ATC content.

[Mr Red]

Becky, not stressfull eh, you can tell you do the West End!!

hahaha only joking!

Did Barron tell you what to say, was he stood behind the camera with a p45 in hand??

[Barnaby the Bear]

Have NATS given up trying to recruit using Flight International?
Did the guy validate in the end?

[Arkady]

Yes, he validated. Unusual stuff always seems to happen on boards, just to add to the pressure, but being live on National Television must be a first!

[The Many Tentacles]

Good lad, nothing like a bit of extra pressure

[055166k]

We all had a chuckle. There were about six buckets carefully positioned to collect rainwater from the leaking roof, and of course the large broken glass roof panel doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[Scuzi]

I noticed as I was walking to the canteen and Decky & co. were coming down the stairs, the buckets had been taken away. When I was returning, the buckets had been put back.

I wonder how many resources went into strategic bucket positioning in order to prevent the BBC from spotting them?

[Homo Simpson]

NATS is all about spin!
How can we look good and say the right things while living in denial about massive problems that exist!

[A I]

Hi Mr Simpson!

Are you saying that a few buckets are "massive problems"? I'd love to hear what other problems you think the company might have.

[ZOOKER]

How about 'Peak Oil'?

[Del Prado]

An acute shortage of correctly qualified staff?
Difficulty in maintaining a training/validation rate that will cover natural wastage let alone growth in traffic levels?
Over reliance on an overtime agreement that finishes in a few years?
Too many layers of management?


A cynical mind could see the holes in the roof as a metaphor for the problems NATS does face, maybe it's time to stop using buckets and start fixing the problems properly.

[Spamcan defender]

Damn, missed the report. Anyone got a link to a youtube(or similar) clip??

Spamcan

[5150]

BBC NEWS | Business | Clearance to land

Would have liked to have seen more of the radar bunch . . .

[Dunhovrin]

Who was The Man From Strabane's instructor? Great patter.

[notared]

Breakfast at Swawick

How many of the sectors were bandboxed so that the "radar bunch" could get down the canteen, sorry staff restaurant , for their breakfast?