With the money the Mcbanks send to offshore tax havens every year one can only imagine what aviation infrastructure could be.
yesterday Sydney was compromised by heavy fog, Brisbane today.
Almost every airline aircraft operating to these airports today are capable of CAT 111 approaches, yet Australia as a whole does not enjoy what the rest of the world enjoys.
Europe, in winter would grind to a halt without low vis procedures.
Yesterday and today considerable amounts of money got pissed up against the wall with multiple diversions, expense and inconvenience to travellers because our airport owners see more value in parking lots than using any of their ill gotten gains on public infrastructure.
How many emergency approaches are conducted every year in Australia to CAT 111 minima on CAT 1 ground aids? Would the Mildura event have occurred if Adelaide had CAT 111 equipment and procedures in place? The holes in the swiss cheese are inevitably lining up.
Our secondary airports much the same.
The Murky Mandarin engineered the delivery of secondary airports into the hands of development sharks. Greed and corruption the end result. Bankstown alone has descended into a lawyer fest. Law suites at twenty paces to divide up the spoils.
When the Secondaries were publicly owned they cost the government NOTHING, public land, publicly administered returned the government a modest profit every year under the FAC. Today millions are being spent on lawyers to decide who gets the mega bucks out of development of what was public land reserved for aviation.
The same principles devoted to "privatising" secondary airports could be applied to our national parks. Now wouldn't Mc Bank just love to get hold of them.
It is corruption at its finest.