NATS Holdings

NATS Holdings Limited
Company typePublic-private partnership
IndustryAir travel and airports
GenreInformation Services
PredecessorNATCS
Founded1962 (1962)
HeadquartersWhiteley, England, United Kingdom
Number of locations
London Area Control Centre and London Terminal Control Centre at Swanwick, Area Control at Prestwick, and air traffic control services at UK airports, as well as offices in Dubai and Singapore
Area served
UK and Gibraltar airspace
Key people
Martin Rolfe (chief executive officer)
ServicesInternational air traffic services and consultancy
Number of employees
4,227 (2021)[1]
SubsidiariesNATS En-Route PLC
NATS Services Ltd
Websitewww.nats.aero Edit this at Wikidata

NATS Holdings, formally National Air Traffic Services and commonly referred to as NATS, provides en-route air traffic control services to flights within the UK flight information regions and the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area.[2] It also provides air traffic control services to 14 UK airports.

The company's en-route business is regulated and operated under licence from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).[3]

  1. ^ "NATS Holdings Limited – Results for the year ended 31 March 2021". 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "IVAO Gander / Shanwick Oceanic". IVAO Gander.
  3. ^ "About us". NATS. Retrieved 1 October 2012.