All about user pays, and in this case, the users, the airlines will not pay for upgrades
When were these upgrades offered & to which airlines. What was the cost of the upgrade and what then was the cost per airline?
Sounds a very dubious explanation.
Nulli,
Are you aware of the AATA, Australian Air Transport Association, representing its members, and the BAR, Board of Airline Representatives, the lobby for the international carriers. The discussions on every aspect of charges levied on airlines is intense and ongoing.
it's cheaper to have the occasional diversion.
For whom? Maybe for the air carrier, not for Australia or its trading customers.
The airline bottom line, what else ---- but that carries through the system to fares, in what is a reasonably competitive environment.
The simple fact, and it is a fact, is that the number of hours a year, at major airports, where Cat III availability would have made a difference to arrivals is rather small, the consensus so far (and this is nothing to do with the present Minister) is that there is no economic justification for further rollout of Car III.
If "global warming" is real, will the incidence of fog become even more uncommon?? I certainly don't have that answer, but who does??
Tootle pip!!