Sitting on the phone today for 5 mins waiting for ASA to answer my call for a VFR SARTIME cancellation, the ASA ad they play instead of music stated how the Sydney-Melbourne consistently rates in the top 10 for traffic worldwide, and how ASA have won so many awards for their services (or is that lack of services?)
How can this be permitted to happen? Does it take a mid-air collision for someone in a position of power to give ASA a kick up the a$s? There is no reason for TIBA. Downgrade airspace, fine, restrict aircraft numbers, fine too, but to shut airspace down completely without even a FIA service to listen for any distress calls or provide basic traffic information - unacceptable in Australia, unacceptable anywhere.