The project undertaken by Airservices is a first, in that, a large complex rigid old gov agency in partnership with a income producing enterprise that wants to modernise. I blame Defence for the delays and the inability to make a decision. Airservices through years of having a entitlement mentality in particular with the voice of their selfish union, had to change. 920+ staff received very generous redundancies...a lottery win, for those that found a job within a month.
The place was losing money and Jason who is a career Airservices guy, Harvard Grad, made the hard calls and saw it through. On Friday afternoons after 3pm you could drive a mini (not a bus but a mini car) through the six floors in Canberra and hit no one. That has changed I am told.
YES they now need to re-employ people in areas perhaps which they cut too many staff...but any large restructure will have this issue.
OneSky was a problem from the start. It was not Jason's best days...he was its first real EGM. But Jason or any EGM would have issues with not only Defence but the staff that came over to One-Sky and acted as managers within Airservices. The CEO at the time was from defence and supported project managers who had no idea about commercialism, just politics. Currently the lead at one sky is an expert who is frustrated with Defence, I am certain he is.
One sky will work if Defence is a 49% partner and has no say.
Leave it to the experts Airservices NOT Defence.
Cheers
Ex Airservice - the lottery winner
