We are writing to you in your role as the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. We listened with interest to the evidence session at the House of Commons on Monday 18 November and were interested to hear some of the points raised by the witnesses from the Department for Transport and NATS, as well as members of your Committee.
Neither RyanAir nor KLM Buzz are members of the Airline Group of NATS shareholders. As such, we were particularly interested to see if last Monday's Select Committee hearing would clarify the two key areas of the ongoing CAA consultation on NATS charges that are a particular concern; namely, the proposals for increased financial contributions from NATS users (with no accompanying service level improvements) and the increase in sharing of risk.
We hope you will not object if we take this opportunity to raise some further points with you and the whole Committee as we feel these issues might also prove useful in helping the Committee to write its final report.