Where is NATS located?
Our main air traffic control centres are the London Area Control Centre at Swanwick in Hampshire, which also houses London Terminal Control; the Manchester Area Control Centre at Manchester airport; and the Scottish Area Control Centre and Oceanic Area Control Centre at Prestwick in Ayrshire. At all three, we provide en route air traffic control for the skies above the UK. NATS is responsible for tower and approach airport traffic services at 15 of the UK’s major airports. These are: Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Bristol, Cardiff, Farnborough and Belfast International. NATS also supplies air traffic control services for Gibraltar airport. Our corporate and technical centre is at Whiteley, near Fareham in Hampshire, and the College of Air Traffic Control is at Hurn, near Bournemouth airport. Our commercial arm, NSL, is based near Heathrow.
