Much like all the other journo's with an aviation bent, Dougy is carrying the Red Rat bad news story front and centre...
Qantas loses billions but confident of the future
However he has also put out his weekly -
Editor's Insights 28 August 2014 - where he has a rehash on the soon to be retired DAS missive...
But Dougy also leaks this positive information on the pending (when the miniscule wakes up) announcement of the final make up of the FF board...
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...Anyway, we are about to move into a new era of CASA so we should be looking forward with positivity.
Speaking of which, we now know that the three final names for the CASA board are: Anita Taylor, Ian Smith and David Cox. Anita has been high profile with the Gliding Federation, Ian is an integral part of the AMDA and David is the executive in charge of Sydney University’s Engineering School (and formerly, of course, head of engineering at Qantas).
Add those names to those already on the board, including recent vice-chairman appointee Jeff Boyd, and we have a pretty potent combination.
The Minister has said that the board would appoint the new DAS, so with the full board in place perhaps we can expect that announcement in the not too distant future. (Though it has been suggested to me that it isn’t going to happen that quickly.) From what I hear there are two strong candidates left in the running.
Hmm...interesting..
MTF...
