Capcom,
You have distilled the thoughts of many!!
Just the prospect of a “simultaneous nationwide airspace safety summit” would get the issues the profile they need!
Industrial Law would make such an action illegal if only Unions took such a stance.
If the aviation industry as a whole was to simultaneously stop flying to discuss a serious safety issue, the impact would be overwhelming and probably impossible to prosecute. There has to be a united ground-swell of opposition and not the isolated voices of the pilot and controller unions. If the "silent majority" of aviation was to demonstrate its digust with the behaviour of the government for allowing this debacle to continue and use the extraordinarily tasteless remarks of Dick Smith to galvanise our aviation community into action, then this whole sorry affair might be over.
I am sure that Dick will eventually learn that "truth never harms a cause that is just"