The most accurate part is this..
Let’s put it at its simplest.
Airservices is failing to deliver the fundamentals of a safe and secure air traffic control system.
Now before anyone pulls a knife, this IS NOT a dig at the guys and girls behind the screens and in the towers than do their best at pushing tin.
There are fundamental problems with ATC in Australia imposed by massive shortfalls in runway and airspace capacity but more importantly by people who have lost the direction of AIRSERVICES.... its in the name FFS.
The administrative burden has become so intense that things never get done, we have been waiting over 9 months for an answer from AsA ...... and still no result.
The front of house staff are hamstrung by policy and procedure that many people are struggling to understand, the delivery of service is actually hamstrung by the "perceived" multiple layers of safety.
Airport capacity is beyond a joke at 4 of the nations capitols now... "at the time when demand exists" and even outside those times.
Enroute separation can be tightened..... but whats the point when you cant flow them to land anywhere.
Terminal control is suffering from a major loss of experience. In Brisbane for example there appears to be a major difference between and "A" team and a "B" team and this is highly evident by the actual flow at busy periods
[although this is compounded by people that seem to take an in-ordinate amount of time to line up behind.....
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Finally there is no one that is prepared to take responsibility for signing off policy. The whole interaction between the runways @ BNE and the Mr Cirrus incident, for quite some time choked BNE until someone bit the bullet..... and ops increased again. Now the brain surgeons have shut it down again for a pipeline.....
A fundamental return to delivering a service is what is needed, not an all singing all dancing corporate office and fancy nancy computer modelling tools that dont mean jack when procedural process only allows a reduced flow.
Dont get me started on the administrative side, suffice to say if it was a commercially operated business.... it would be out of business by now
