Everyone seems to accept that costs are being generated by the CAA that, perhaps, should be borne by GA. But why isn't anyone challenging the CAA to justify their costs? Was the cost really necessary? What benefit did it achieve? Do they really need to maintain the current level of staff/resource to provide it? Is the parts paper-trail really necessary? Could it not be delegated to a GA representative body who may achieve the same result at lower cost?
I don't know how the CAA operates, but without effective competition, they are hardly likely to be as lean an operation as would be the case in the private sector. The big operators should be pressing the CAA to justify their costs, not pass them on to GA.
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