Hardly payback.
Good to see no experience in ATM/ATC yet again in the board.
Now I wonder why they keep getting things wrong?!?
The Airspace directorate will just add another empire building layer of government dis-organisation when anything airspace wise needs to be addressed. (Hey! Isn't Liberal philosophy about smaller government?)
Right now we can not even get a sensible answer out of CASA on ATM/ATC practices - they either don't care or just don't know. So lets add another competing entity in to the murky equation.
I forsee - greater rates of change - greater expense - duplication - no net increase to safety (we all remember safety don't we?).
But then - who do YOU trust to keep interest rates low? who do YOU trust in the war on TERROR? ...
Perhaps the removal of regulatory functions will give ASA the time to focus on their no-longer-looming-but-arriving ATC staffing crisis?