Great stuff this economic rationalism!
User pays and if the user cannot pay, then the industry can go to buggery.
Some great comments in a similar vein on another forum about BK airport.
Simplistic user pays, (government sitting on their hannds) does not take into account the cost to the community - and hence we will have no training or charter businesses or GA airfields left in a few more years... - and of course no pilots and Lames either. Then governments might just notice the fall out on businesses that rely on GA - like Mining?
Average Helicopter pilot age is 48, average helicopter engineer is 52. Not much training going on there recently, in a sector that is projected to double in the next few years.... Now how can that be?