| National Air Traffic Services (NATS)
provides air traffic control services to aircraft flying in UK airspace, and
over the eastern part of the North Atlantic.
Safety is NATS’ first and foremost priority but it also aims to
provide its service in an efficient and expeditious way. This
year NATS will handle more than two million flights carrying over
180 million passengers.
NATS provides ‘en route’ air traffic control or air traffic
management from the following centres:
- London Area Control Centre at Swanwick, Hampshire
- London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton, Middlesex
- Scottish Area Control Centre and Oceanic Area Control Centre
at Prestwick, Ayrshire
- Manchester Area Control Centre located at Manchester Airport
In the future, NATS will handle en route traffic from two new
centres – the Swanwick Centre in Hampshire and the New Prestwick Centre in Scotland.
NATS also provides air traffic control services at 14 of the
nation's major airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Birmingham,
Manchester and Glasgow.
NATS also:
- operates and maintains a nationwide communications, surveillance
and navigation network
- provides engineering support at all operational units
- carries out advanced research and development
- develops software for current and new systems
- trains air traffic controllers and engineers
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