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Narrated by James Marriott
Blame games can be such a carry-on. The buck-passing over the National Air Traffic Services meltdown is no exception.
Listen to the government and it hasn’t ruled out the dastardly French, even if transport secretary Mark Harper has spent most of his time badgering the airlines to live up to “their responsibilities” to “get people back home” while laying on food, drink and lodgings until they do. As for the airlines, the former IAG boss Willie Walsh, in his new Iata role as chief industry lobbyist, has got himself revved up about the “£100 million” bill coming the carriers’ way, while lambasting the Civil Aviation Authority’s “oversight” of the business and complaining, justifiably, that the fiasco will “cost Nats nothing”.
Meantime, the Nats boss, Martin