Originally Posted by Charlie Foxtrot India
Instead they forged ahead and let the flying training and aviation tourism industries grind to a halt.
The demise of a certain self fly tour company has meant that 20 trips X 5-7 aircraft through our area every year, has reduced to nil trips. Less fuel sales, less motel bookings etc etc etc. I have spoken to the owner of that company. He closed it down because there was no way he could comply with security checks for foreign pilots, within any time constraints or with any certainty.
He had to bring in the ombudsman to even get the Dept to listen to his problems with all of this. There is no talk of compensation.