CAR206 is not about passenger safety and never was. That is the error CASA have been making for many years.
It is about the authorisation, classification and regulation of commercial flying operations.
Indeed, that section of the ANRs from which CAR206 originated (ANR190 to 203 from memory?), deals entirely with classification of operations, particularly in reference to the previous two airline agreement.
CAR206(1)(c):
....the purpose of transporting persons generally, or transporting cargo for persons generally, for hire or reward in accordance with fixed schedules to and from fixed terminals over specific routes with or without intermediate stopping places between terminals.
If CAR206 was solely about passenger safety, why then does is specifically include "
....transporting cargo for persons generally"?
I wonder how many scheduled air freight operators, from Bank Runners to major trunk route cargo operators, hold an AOC authorising cargo only RPT services - and if not, why has CASA not pursued those operators for conducting scheduled cargo services which are not authorised by their AOC?
