NATS, the UK’s leading provider of air traffic services, handled 2.6 per cent more flights in November, compared to the same month last year.
Air traffic controllers are plotting a new course this weekend – moving from their old base at West Drayton near Heathrow to join colleagues already working at Swanwick in Hampshire. The transition will create the world’s busiest international flight control centre and takes NATS – recently voted by the air transport industry as the best ATC company in the world - halfway to its strategic goal to consolidate operations at two centres, at Swanwick and at Prestwick in Ayrshire.
Air traffic controllers are plotting a new course this weekend – moving from their old base at West Drayton near Heathrow to join colleagues already working at Swanwick in Hampshire. The transition will create the world’s busiest international flight control centre and takes NATS – recently voted the world’s best ATC company - halfway to its strategic goal to consolidate operations at two centres, at Swanwick and at Prestwick in Ayrshire.
The number of flights controlled by NATS this year passed two million on October 17, ten days earlier than last year. Traffic for the month was up 3.9 per cent on October 2006. Growth for the year to date is 3.7 per cent.
NATS has been voted the world’s top air navigation service provider (ANSP), in Air Traffic Management magazine’s first-ever international survey of the air traffic management industry.
NATS, the UK’s leading air traffic services provider, handled three per cent more flights last month compared with the same month last year.
NATS' dedicated allocation of airspace for military use caused 20% of NATS-attributable delays in that sector and with air traffic forecast to increase, the problem was set to get worse.
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