A point missed by some !
I am not in vavour of more CAS but my point is the pressure will be on GA to use airspace consideratly or it will become CAS, Beagle may consider the pax on low cost airlines "scum" but he should remember that money talks and there are a lot more "scum" than GA pilots and if GA can't see a changing situation and react to it then it will suffer.
As to the services that can be excepted by a CAT flight I am happy with RIS in good VMC but it has to be RAS in IMC however I doubt if most of the young first officers that I fly with know the difference ! we now have a breed of autopilot in at 400ft and out at 200ft FMC obsessed aircraft opperators who spend most of the time head down pushing buttons on the FMC, I encorage the use of the big reality displays ( windows to most people !) but I have an uphill task when these people have only 300 hours total time and very little flying skill.
God help us all when this new JAA CPL turns up and these people only do about 35 hours in a real aircraft and the rest in the sim