SM4-Pirate
you will be bitching and moaning about the amount of extra controllers employed
No I won't. AOPA support this because it will (we are told) result in savings.
White rat airlines are having 2 bob each way, as are a few others. The RAAF can't work out airspace (which is why they have more than the USAF for 1/1000000 th the fleet) and AFAP and Civil Air have lost the argument through transparrent bleating.
IF it takes more controller, then the AIRLINES will have to ask for them. Then the AIRLINES can pay for them. I have no problems with that.
What this does is sets a standard of service that VFR need to operate and defines anything above this as service to commercial entities.
If the Government have got it wrong then they will have to foot the bill.
I personally am of the view that air safety, when it comes to the travelling public, is a public interest and should be funded from the budget, not some farcical user pays system anyway!!!
But that's just my view, comrade
AK