Ferris
Some good points, well made, especially on the ever present tension between commercial reality and safety.
I understand QF won't accept MBZ at Canberra. I'm not able to say why this is so. Perhaps some one who operates into Canberra with QF might care to comment.
I have no objection to two people being rostered in the CBR Tower, if that is the minimum staffing level necessary to ensure the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic (is this still the definition of ATC), at sparrows.
But irrespective of how many people are rostered on, it's still an indivudual's responsibility to get to work on time.
And I agree that nothing is simple as it seems, including the law!