Originally Posted by
Traffic_Is_Er_Was
No you firstly commented on Airservices lack of service, and it's safety implications, and then conflated that with the Airport situation of requiring visitors to reception to jump through some hoops. The fact that the airport continues to enforce the rules forced on it by various governmental agencies has what relationship to the status of the airspace? They unfortunately don't have the option of "Oh we're a bit short staffed, so we're just going to leave the gates open for a while".
If you had asked why does CASA give ASA a free pass, yet everyone else in the industry has to abide by the rules irrespective, it would not have come across as just a rant against perceived GC pettiness.
I also literally said it was a rant against gold coast airport pettiness. Do you always start rage typing against a post before reading it in its entirety? Anyway it is a good sign a thread has run its course when it degenerates into pedants having a go at something which is pretty straight forward. No doubt if someone posted the sky was blue there would be 50 replies by pilots explaining why this may or may not be the case, how back in their day the sky was bluer, young pilots today don't know what blue is, and the CAR's and CAO's are very poorly written as to when the blue stops and the violet begins.