Just read this about flight cancellations today in Aus:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...b012dc9a6c0205 Also noticed in my own flying, Gold Coast airport has been running as a CTAF sometimes due to ATC shortages, area freq unmanned etc.
Firstly in my opinion controllers in Australia are generally excellent given what i can hear by their excessively careful wording in clearances is a job that must the highest levels of pedanticism.. Can almost hear the supervisors listening over their shoulder for them to forget "climb via the SID" from 4000 to 5000" as opposed to just climb...otherwise of course the pilots will just go off on their own random way.
Can Air Services be such a cluster that they can't fulfill their one main job? Provide air services. Jesus i despair in Aus bureaucracy sometimes.