There is a presumption that a passenger who undertakes a charter flight is accepting of a greater degree of risk than one who simply buys an airline ticket. This is reflected in the difference between how charter vs RPT is reflected in the various rules & regs around the world. Whether the punter on board is actually aware, who knows, but that's how the systems work. A private VFR flight will always be at the bottom of the list. Basic economics dictate that.
In regards to my old comments, the to-ing and fro-ing prior to departure was mainly to prevent delays with their respective clearances, and to ensure adequate separation at the time they entered CTA. Of course they were adequately separated in CTA during that part of their descent. It wasn't considered more or less acceptably safe for either their OCTA descent or climb. It was considered acceptable on a dispensation against the prevailing rules basis, which was that RPT turbojets operated in Controlled Airspace.
A tower was built, but never opened, because ultimately it was deemed non-cost effective for between 2 and 4 RPT jets a day.