"I feel that the drive is toward less but larger organisations, similar to primary industry in Australia."
From a purely commercial point of view Eddie, they can make the organizations as large as they like. At the end of the day those organizations require paying customers, unless the government intends to subsidize them, which they will have to do for essential services.
Paying customers are not fools, they can compare, you can charter the same aircraft in the USA for almost half what it requires in Australia.
Are we any safer than the rest of world with our myriad of convoluted rules? Would appear not from statistics.
The mandarins can plot and plan all they like, in the end it will be self defeating, a perfectly good industry down the drain and perhaps a dramatic rise in road deaths.