Whooaa steady there old fella.
Let's get back to square one.
There has been a rentless campaign by Airlines, the Govt and the tin foil cohort
to user pays for God knows how long and the hunt continues for cost reductions that have clearly been absent for yonks.
I don't know whether the corollary is apt or not but when one goes on a Nazi weight loss diet, apart from stripping fat it also strips muscle, sinew and skeletal material along with it. The brain being smarter than the rest of the body looks after it self, it has to or the whole thing falls apart, it is and has to be the last thing to go. Usually what happens in extremis there is a large organ failure first.
Tin Foil Leader and his mates can rant at the edges all day, but it's the airlines who control the day, comparing or attempting to, our Airservices costs with more densely populated countries is like trying to set up a Special Economic Zone at Giles.
Airservices always did and still belongs with a Government funded organisation.
To expect a private company to cost recover from a uneconomic base which refuses to recognise that if it wants First World services it has to pay for it in relation to an economic base AND not have the Sovereign risk protection that Governement enjoys is Pollyanna.
Efficient yes Government or Private, but how can you be efficient if you are structurally weak and muscle poor.
And we wont go near Tin Foil Leaders billion dollar dalliances.
I dare say were we to put a credible Business Consulting and HR firm through the place they would get a tick for business management and quality processes but a big fat zero for resourcing. There would be a recommendation to raise revenue rates to provide the resources necessary to fulfill their service obligation or and theres two chances it would happen get the Government to hand back the Capital they took out in the first place.