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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Will extra funding be available to employ more staff to cope with the increased workload?
Who will provide the extra finance needed?
Or will this extra workload be forced onto the present staff? and what implications are there for safety in that eventuality?
Since 1966 Ireland and the UK have jointly provided air traffic control and communication services on the North Atlantic in a region known as Shanwick (NOTA).
Now Irish and British governments have agreed to extend the existing agreement for British National Air Traffic Services (NATS) to provide the air traffic control services for a further 25 years.
Under the agreement, from Jan 2005 the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) will provide a new Radar service to monitor the Shanwick region.
NATS will no longer provide a radar service but will rely on an upgraded radar service based at Shannon.
As regards precious (me, myself and I gnorant - don't care who it ends up killing) Irish jobs.
Chairman of NATS, "NATS is now positionened to give us greater FLEXIBILITY to collaborate [outsource] with progressive [avoiding-unions], like-minded [neo-liberal] air traffic providers and begin a more co-operative [competitive], COMMERCIAL approach to air traffic management.
Also
£127 Radar Deal Launches
http://www.nats.co.uk/news/news_stories/2003_04_01.html
Part of a ten year business plan to place NATS at the forefront of ATC provision in Europe.
NATS lead partner in the radar deal is Raytheon Systems which has been awarded £75 m to build and install secondary surveillance radar.
Another major contract worth more than £7 m, has been awarded to EADS Defence Systems and Electronics to provide antennae for new radar equipment across all UK site.
Does Shannon now constitute a new "UK site", we're well aware its been a US military one for some time.
I'm sure most of the contributors to this site fly on their package trips to Spain. Greece etc.
Maybe even to Disney in the land of the (sometime) free..
Question is do you want to do it in safety...which is what the NATS upgrade is about..or do you want to be a dead statistic in a mid air collision due to overloaded antique equipment. The present UK NATS radars are mostly military ones built in the 1960's and obsolete.
Why the hell do you planks immediately think any aviation upgrade is a sinister plot by Bush and his boys?
Grow up and read something other than LA LA Land Weekly.