Black Maria
You are of course correct. There are compliance issues regarding the use of 350's. Two crew or SP, the IFR aerodrome thing and balanced field etc. CASA can issue exemtions of course but I don't see this happening on a permanant basis.They also have to crew these aircraft and that would require ATPL allowance and there still is no excess of available qualified pilots. The next operator should be very carefull not to under quote.
The 350 bit is just rumer and no more, I would not be suprised if 200's are re-instated.