Being the owner of four light aircraft and flying for an airline I do see this issue from both sides and have no problem with accomodating light aircraft traffic, but in this case a quick word with ATC would have saved the airlines some money and had very little if any effect on the flight of the light aircraft.
In short the a quick word from this guy could have saved the needless extra flying time by two airliners, inccidents like this only encourage the bean counters to ask for more CAS if there is a good and valid reason for airliners giving way to GA then I have no problem with this.
This thread was started becaue I don't want any more CAS and to encourage GA pilots to cooperate with ATC, this will undermine the requests from the beancounters for more CAS, the bottom line is we must use class G airspace wisely or it will be taken from us.