Not convinced pith is who you have assumed Chassinshaddows, might be a relative of CJ. Most of Piths comments fairly close to the mark with exception of TCAS. Your absolutely right with TCAS, he is a principled individual and would challenge CASA rationally as and when needed.
Skytrans decline is easily traced to when TCAS then Thick were sidelined, they got the business firing and won (with support from a good team across the board) all of the contracts the company ever held. Both hands on and engaged with the crews, engineers and support staff. Yes TMR was handed to them with collapse of Macair. To be fair though, they did tender and re-win the TMR work 24 months later on the basis of their OTP, relationship and responsible management.
The current team managed to lose the lot within 12 months.Not sure what spin the teacher who with "ambition ahead of ability struggles" can craft to save face from this fact!