The privatisation of secondary airports was a grab for cash by the Federal Govt. Under the FAC these airports had some life and a controlling interest with an understanding of basic airport infrastructure. Generally, they were negotiable from my experience.
Enter the new owners. All deals cancelled or not renewed. Rents etc raised by sometimes stealth to so-called "market rates". Leases extinguished where possible and new more restrictive ones implemented. Costs go through the roof [bit like privatised electricity and water]. The carve up begins. Hoxton Park bulldozed and the airports become like ghost towns after rents just keep heading north at a rapid rate.
Hello these airports sit in the middle of an industrial zone and have a thousand or more acres o development land! BP truck stops/Bunnings/DFO/Schools/Concrete recycling/warehouses/car storage/heavy machinery sales yards etc etc etc appear while aviation disappears without a trace like the Mary Celeste...
Fight back by a united aviation industry????? Didn't and hasn't happened...Why??
