Environmental Training & Awareness

We have had an environmental awareness programme in place in NATS for the past five years which has helped to move us forward considerably.

Today, the environment is becoming part of NATS’ DNA, just like safety. Day-to-day our people offer access to fuel efficient cruise levels, manage speeds, provide direct routes and assist with continuous climbs and descents, all helping to reduce aircraft fuel use and CO2 emissions. Discussion in almost any forum now includes ‘What’s the effect on the environment and 3Di?’

Nevertheless, we continue to build on this so people can make safe and informed choices to improve environmental performance. This is especially important as we provide new technology and optimum airspace designs to help them achieve fuel-efficient flight profiles.

Environmental Awareness Programme

We continue to run our popular Environmental Awareness Course for our staff, and have added a one-day workshop to our programme and run a series of these tailored to different groups around the Business. In October we took the course to Prestwick to reach the Airspace Efficiency Group there and combined the event with a 4% Plan ‘marketplace’ to answer questions and discuss further fuel saving ideas with controllers based at Prestwick. As ever, the Dragons’ Den style event produced valuable fuel saving ideas which we’re pursuing to bring into practice.

We have also continued to offer our online environmental awareness module which has now been completed by over one thousand NATS employees.

4% Communications

During 2013/4 much of our communication and awareness material focussed on the 4% Plan with intranet news reports keeping everyone up to speed with progress and posters dotted around NATS sites. The most eye catching installations were undoubtedly the huge runway progress trackers at Swanwick and Prestwick.