We've seen the flying industry rot from pay-to-fly. Now we're going for pay-to-control? Surely
that will never work? Airlines got away with bank-balance selection to an extent, but there are two people in the cockpit and even
if P2F halves safety levels it would still be so safe that trends would be difficult to spot. There is only one ATCO on frequency. The ATCO is either necessary and needs to be of a calibre and expreience level to keep things safe or any monkey could do it with pay in peanuts. Many will hope it is the latter, but this could turn out to be a tragic and expensive experiment.
I foresee a lot of learning (=incidents) over the next few years while this settles down, but if it is seen as a success you can be sure it will repeated elsewhere
