Hon John Anderson
Deputy Prime Minister
Minister for Transport and Regional Services.
Dear Deputy Prime Minister.
General Aviation is hurting from the profiteering of airport owners. Despite your promises of a CPI-1% price cap, proces have more than doubled at many privatised airports including Canberra, Jandakott and Archerfield.
This is costing GA jobs and making the industry less safe as it loses critical mass.
Flying schools are closing. Maintenance operations are closing 9such that owners can no longer properly maintain aircraft). Money that could be spent upgrading an ageing fleet goes into the pockets of greedy airport owners.
Essentially it is your policies that are to blame, so I must say that unless the trend is reversed I will have to take it strongly into account at the next election, and particularly when voting in the Senate.
I hope together we can find a solution to revitalise GA and stop this blatant profiteering.
Andrew Kerans