Whilst you may, Dick Smith, wish to again avail us of your advisory anecdotes, the questions for struggling operators nevertheless remain unanswered:
- How can they get out? Should they just walk away for no money?
- If so, does this not mean they do lose even more? Doesn't your advice now mean someone else must get in? Doesn't that then mean that that person must now get out? And so on and so on.
- Is it not correct to say your advice to the strugglers is in fact flawed and that you continually fail to disclose your true and full position is on an industry wide basis and in so doing you cause enormous harm and upset to the rest of the industry? Are you simply attempting to remain relevant, using what others have described here as headline grabbing, at the expense of industry participants working hard to gain say new members or additional business revenue?
It does appear you are now aimlessly wavering back again to an industry wide position. Will you from here on commit to include this essential component within your advice, that being,
your view is not industry wide but only applies to struggling aviation businesses?
Surely therefore, would it not be fair and likely that any minister or any head of CASA would have no choice but to disregard your views, and in fact yourself as a credible industry participant, until such time as you can consistently articulate your position and how exactly your proposal would, or even could, be executed.
Let us all hear the specific details as so far 'let's collapse the industry' doesn't seem to be gaining much momentum. Liberate the thought processes you have conjured in order for you to gift such sage advice. Or is just so farfetched that people really will be forgiven for thinking this guy's after some attention and a headline?