Does it matter a rats ar$e who the new CEO is?
en-rooter yes it does and there are good people out there who will not cost an arm or a leg.
There have been good senior execs in Airservices in the deepest past but mad-energy from a certain quarter has had equally disastrous effect upon this organisation as it has upon our system. That brought along persons who could not see past the tatoo on their left-one that read "Commerce" and on the other one - "at all costs".
The problem is, as it always has been, a matter of self-propagation. A mediocre Board or political element will always choose someone of their like. Gumley is from DMO, which is about as deep in the mire of incompetence and beauracratic porridge as anywhere else in the Department of Defence.
As difficult as it is to admit it - I agree with your sense of pessimism.
I had a dream!