NAS
The argument that NAS and reducing the number of sectors and controllers will be the start of a new age in aviation in Aus with the cost reduction is nonsense.
About 12 years ago we had about 1000 FSO's and 1000 ATC's located at locations all around the country, now we have no FSO's and about 1000 ATC? mainly located in Melbourne and Brisbane.
This huge cost reduction both in staff and remote facilities must have made the industry really boom, yet we have aviation now in a depressed state perhaps beyond saving.
The proposed cost savings being put foward out of NAS are a carrot to make everyone think that it will save a heap of money therefore it must be good.
Though most of the operational aspects of NAS are reasonable the money that will be saved is not any where near the figure being put about by various people.