Lodown, good pick up with your 4 points.
Pleased to say point 3
is already on the move.
Point 4 also is with the Badgery Creek announcement... always thought Richmond was the go but better people than I, in the know have decided.
BNE320...Cooma is a basket case and always will be so long as it has the current Eden/Monaro Shire Council and remains on a major road link. We looked into ops closer to the NSW resorts when doing Hotham Express (expansion of Jindy ALA or new runway other side of lake) but came up against hurdles at every turn. Enough said.
Rex of course has their own motives, being driven ruthlessly by Singapore while enough has been said about QF management and motives elsewhere here.
Interesting point
nomorecatering, regarding farmers. No where else in the world is the grocery/food supply chain controlled by just 2 players, at such a high market share (~95% I recall reading?).
So "Aviation on the brink of collapse"? There are many fundamental issues wrong with the current structure of Australia... many mentioned above already. It's gonna take many years to turn around this "FUBAR" left behind but like NZ it can be done.
In aviation lets just start by getting the "muppets" out of admin (aka the UK BMI turkeys who thought they could run an antipodean regional -Brindy).
One things for sure, this inquiry into thug Unions & corruption is going to answer a lot of questions over why its expensive here and why the car manufacturers are bailing.
Happy landings.