There is no doubt that Hugh IS one of Western Australias most respected aviation figures, they are as a breed fairly thin on the ground. One wonders given their heavier grunt why NJS were unable to keep him.
It is a win for Skywest but it will only work for them if they listen hard and let him get on with it.
Icarus2001
Problem No.1 for FIFO ops is getting the mines to change their shift changeover patterns to spread departures and arrivals over the day, then it is starting to become possible to do the same amount of work with half the number of aircraft and ease the congestion at peak times.
Problem No.2 for FIFO ops is getting the mines to change their shift changeover patterns to spread departures and arrivals over the day, then it is starting to become possible to do the same amount of work with half the number of aircraft and ease thge congestion at peak times.
Problem No.3, see Problem No. 2 above.
So who is going to lead that charge given the unsustainable levels of competition at Perth.
One seriously obvious solution is to meet the miners FIFO manpower resource problem by relocating ops from "Perth" to the population centres where the miners want to or already live. The miners might have to do a bit of work, and it's not hard, with their staff but penny to a pound they will get a positive response.
Say Busselton, which has a brilliant Airport or Bunbury who could have had were they not misled by greedy local interests.
Any how Busselton is only the same dist in time from Bunbury as any of the Perth suburbs and reaches deeper into the southern catchment area.
Two/three weeks on one of in the SW playing, surfing, what a life.?
