Travel Weekly
Ian Taylor
27 Nov 2025
UK aviation needs to operate “almost perfectly” every day, with capacity stretched and the system at its limits, according to the head of air traffic management system Nats.
Martin Rolfe, Nats chief executive, insisted “our resilience is pretty high” when he addressed the Airlines 2025 conference in London earlier this month, arguing: “Canada has the same amount of aviation [as Britain] with 10 times more space.
“The challenge is that the capacity we have is stretched. It has to run almost perfectly every day.”...
