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AOC operators are NOT mainly concerned about unaudited operators sharing the sky's in an unsafe manner......IT'S ABOUT LOST REVENUE BE HONEST
Don't you see that it is the same thing?
The whole point of regulation is to stop a race to the bottom. If money is taken out of the AOC holders' pockets by illegal charters, then there are fewer people willing to pay the costs of AOC, and more willing to operate unregulated. They could well be the same people, so they have no cause for complaint, they're still making money. The logical end to that is an end to regulated charter, and minimising costs taking the place of safety.
People are right to say that hasn't happened in most private and corporate operations. That is because the people who are paying are often those at risk, or at least know them well. In charters that is not the case - there will always be someone who will do it cheaper by cutting training, by not having a quality system or by making pilots run their own ground ops and fly long hours.
You see that people like Detling with many years in private ops have no idea what a quality system is, I doubt he has a clue about SMS. If operators running illegal charters have any management of flight safety and accident prevention it is certain to be many years out of date, very much on traditional lines which are not as good as modern systems.