In OZ we have been fighting the same fight; all-be-it less publically.
The legislation that would allow competition in Australia has been recently made law. This opens our skies to competition by anyone that can get a licence to provide such services.
Only problem is that you can only get a licence if you're on the schedule and the only one on the schedule is the monopoly employer/provider Airservices Australia.
Competition is still goverment policy but they didn't have the Senate numbers to get anything else through. This may be able to be changed through parliament in the future if the numbers change etc. But for the next 2 years we're safe.
Good luck wherever you are regarding this issue... profit before sfaety is paramount from companies that report to shareholders not the community.
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