I quite agree Porco, we all make mistakes, and nothing wrong with that per se. I guess the point I was making was the controllers stuffed up, and they punished the GA pilot and not the commercial operation. What should have happened is the jet should have been sent around, the jet jockey would throw his toys out the the pram, and the controllers advised of a mistake in a no blame manner. So next time a light aircraft turns up
having agreed to pay the charges for a professional service, the controllers get it a bit better. If they get away with it, there is no incentive to change. But I still like controllers
Regarding the airline coming after the PPL who busts airspace so costs them money, I suppose when I think about it simplistically and I hate to say it but it's not actually too unreasonable. But then I consider that the small planes were here before the large planes, and the airlines have annexed large amounts of airspace, more than they appear to require IMHO, so I consider it's just a cost to them of doing business in my airspace. Also, they don't compensate me adequately when they mess me around as a passenger - So they can take a hike.