We live in interesting times
I'm not sure of the exact amount, but Australia's regulator has squandered a quarter billion dollars or so over the past twenty years, allegedly "reforming" regulations. Replacing a modest number of pages into thousands to allegedly improve "safety". Have they achieved the stated goal? Compared with the worlds biggest aviation country nope!
NZ on the other hand expended around five million dollars and a few years and reformed theirs and from informed sources did a pretty good job, so much so that quite a few other countries around the globe chose to adopt them. Did they achieve their stated goal? Yep!
Todays Australian has some interesting articles, not a single job add for pilots though, same at the AFPAP websight except for three in NZ.
Encouraging for Mr.Truss to be calling for an inquiry into the regulator as part of the coalitions policy. It is now incumbent on us all to bombard his office to reinforce the industries displeasure at the current state of affairs and hold the coalition to account for their promises.
Also in the Australian.
The Kiwi's seem to have another thing right to, with a call to copy them on air services.
The telling piece I thought was Air New Zealand announcing a 156 % increase in profit, when our lot can only manage a token five million and a massive loss. One could be forgiven for imagining that things seem to be going rather well in aviation land over there. Of course it couldn't be that the burden and cost of over regulation here is so onerous that it is becoming impossible for industry to make a profit. Are we heading back to the old two airline days of the sixties and seventies when a ticket from Sydney to Melbourne was around five hundred bucks...what would that be in todays dollars? Oh well there goes the tourist industry along with the GA industry, does CAsA care? they don't have to!
Last edited by thorn bird; 30th Aug 2013 at 10:42.