Ah, but we forget BK is owned by real-estate sharks who are severely getting their fingers burnt as they thought they wouldn't actually have to run an airport, just price aviation out of it then flog off the real-estate.
They would rub their hands with glee at the fees they could bilk from a captive commuter airline with nowhere else to go. Then of course the other parasites on aviation such as the "security Industry"would move in and before you know it air fares would be unaffordable.
Before you even started flying there's the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed just to get the AOC, long before you even sourced an aircraft. Maintenance costs are three times as expensive as elsewhere due to over regulation, hell its costing tens of thousands of dollars just to induct a pilot these days with the Bul.sh.t CAsA require.
With our current regulator and their current regulations I cannot see any sane person investing in aviation in Australia. Maybe when it finally collapses here the Kiwi's might make a go of it using their regulations.
Last edited by thorn bird; 11th Feb 2014 at 11:28.