Southern closes door.
The end of another era this week when Southern Australia Airlines handed in its AOC. The Dash 8 ops now with Eastern and the 146 ops with NJS. It also marked the end of over 20 years service for the Chief Pilot who is moving on to
VB in the new year. A job well done and good luck.
Much has been said about how this matter has been handled and it would be an understatement to say it could have been done better. At the end of the day however much credit must go to all the staff for the professional manner that they have shown over the past year, despite the undue stress that has been most obvious in all quarters.
Hopefully the corporate managers may have learnt something from this “exercise” but somehow maybe they are too far removed from the real world to know (or perhaps even care?). One may never know until the Sunstate/Eastern merge?
It will certainly never be the same again, but the memories will live on.
Good luck to you all you"Southerners".