Watch out for the RFDS
PR spin
I am interested in the new ways they are finding to waste my money.
FGD135....is it just me, or are you a little 'anti' RFDS?
Those extra 5-6 Broome houses and allowances would surely add up to near a million dollars per year.
Broome is the largest base outside of JT. Operationally, they actually provide more shifts than JT.
It is a modern, well equipped base, with the staff and infrastructure already in place.
As CS mentioned previously, the idea is for PC12's to feed Kimberley patients into Broome, with the PC24 ready to fly through to JT.
The current situation, with Meeka or Newman meets with southern crews is time consuming and inefficient. With these 'meets' often being cancelled, due to higher priority tasking elsewhere, the crews get stuck in Perth.
This causes a lack of resources in the north, and an accommodation expense for the crew.
The PC24 idea is great in principle, (in Broome and Jandakot), only time will tell whether it is a success or not.