Spot on. Aviation has grown up and turned into a business. Back in the day we campaigned for 'Public Service, not Private Profit', and the British electorate told us to go away. If I was an ATS Manager at a regional airport, and I walked down the corridor to my Finance and Business Manager and said that I want to staff an ATS service that generated no revenue for the business, once the laughing had stopped, I'd be told to get real. Similarly, my Safety and Compliance Manager would be asking why I am letting VFR GA transits potentially provoke TCAS alerts with our core customers, and their crew reports are automatically forwarded to the SM inbox for investigation. The world has changed.
HB