Seems the ABC agrees that something is not right with air safety. if you ask me, critical safety related activity and infrastructure do not belong in a corporate - for profit structure, they belong in a government bureaucratic structural model.
i warned that change will only occur after Two or more smoking holes - major loss of life, before this charade of a corporate model for a natural government monopoly is seen for the abomination it really is. Seems like someone in Airservices agrees.
"Airservices Australia insiders warn air-traffic job cuts are 'huge risk to public safety'
By the National Reporting Team's Benjamin Sveen and national technology reporter Jake Sturmer
Job cuts have left the government body responsible for air-traffic control in Australia in crisis, with senior Airservices officials providing damning accounts that the organisation is now "a huge risk to public safety".
Key points:
Airservices staff fear it could take 'blood on their hands' before changes are made
More than 700 jobs have been cut from the organisation to date as part of cost-cutting
Senator Nick Xenophon is demanding an immediate cease of the retrenchments
"It's only a matter of time before we have a major aviation incident," one Airservices executive has told the ABC.
As a result of a cost-cutting program known as Accelerate, Airservices Australia suffered a net loss of more than 700 staff.
But the organisation has insisted the cuts only affect backroom support staff and not frontline workers such as air-traffic controllers and airport firefighters.
The definition of "frontline" has been hotly disputed among staff, as the cuts include positions such as safety specialists, radiation hazard inspectors, flight simulator training operators and environmental noise managers.
Fears about Airservices' capacity to manage problems in the skies had been debated since executives learned of how extensive cuts would impact their operational areas last July.
But these simmering anxieties reached a new flashpoint when a thunderstorm erupted over Melbourne just after Christmas last year.".....
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-1...s-warn/8268360