Originally Posted by
The SSK
Briefly - air transport in general is subject to incredibly rigorous regulatory oversight and the regulators will come down like a ton of bricks on anybody bending the rules.
The SSK, knowing your line of work and having read many of your well-informed posts over many years, I tend to give your opinions a lot of weight.
So IŽd like to run by you something that I have long wondered about.
Unlike the practice in many countries, the IAA (very like the CAA) receives no funding from the Government. It is a commercial semi-State body responsible for the provision of ... the safety regulation of the Irish civil aviation industry. The IAA's revenue primarily comes from charging aircraft that use Irish-controlled airspace.
From their website:
To my uninformed eye it looks as if a large part of the IAAŽs funding is paid by Ryanair.
Could you possibly tell me if that impression is correct?
And am I the only one who wonders if the funding of a regulatory authority is relevant?