1996 to 1998 I wrote many letters to CASA querying the definition and seeking a determination of 'scheduled services'. Leroy Keith, then CASA Director, told me around 1998 that CASA recognized the deficiencies of CAR206 and it would be "rectified in months".
Aviation Journalist Paul Phelan wrote in an
Australian Aviation article dated around April or May 1999:
Uzu Air's general manager wrote 13 letters to CASA and its predecessors, seeking clarification of the anomalies surrounding the carriage of individual paying passengers at fixed fares on subsidised remote area mail service flights. None were answered, and a CASA officer later told Uzu: "Officially they don't exist."
Over 20 years later the matter of appropriate, cost effective air services into remote and rural airports has still not been adequately addressed.