Sarcsy,
Interesting stuff from minister "Wuss" but a few bucks thrown at air nav charges unfortunately wont cut the mustard.
The millions of dollars and years of delay to gain regulatory approval make any form of regional RPT unviable.
The new Part 61 adds further unsustainable $$$ to operating costs on top of Australia's asinine maintenance regulations.
The current Regionals are operating profitably for now on grandfather infrastructure in place before MComic turned up.
As they have to ramp up their ticket price to comply with new regulations and the regulatory cost of introducing new equipment more and more of their customers will decide to hit the road rather than their wallets.
Effectively we are going back to the two airline days where punters would drive to Bn or Mel from syd to attend a weekend wedding because they couldn't afford or justify the ticket price.
That price was dictated by monopoly, but also by union intransience.
Today the price is driven by regulatory compliance.
Often wonder how many of the punters became casualties of that folly, and I wonder how many in the future from the current CAsA folly. Will CAsA be culpable for those casualties??...should be!!! but of course CAsA are never responsible for anything.
Unfortunately minister "Wuss" aint awake, he's blind
The answer is so simple, instead of doing a Europe and killing our industry, do a Kiwi and watch our industry take off.
How much is it going to cost the "Guv mint" subsidizing essential services when aviation in Australia does a Europe??
Angel flight?...same parameters...a real charity, not a pseudo charity like the RFDS or Care flight.
Commercial entities masquerading as charities, bidding for commercial contracts with a definitive advantage over their competitors.
Angel Flight fills a gap where no $$$ are currently available for a commercial operator, and does it very well.
CAsA hates an anomaly that they cant control or manipulate, so they will kill angel flight.
The punters left with little choice but to hit the road Jack!!
Last edited by thorn bird; 15th Sep 2014 at 09:20.