It will potentially be good to have a political heavyweight as minister, so long as aviation can get his attention, not just inland rail.
It will be important to give the new minister a chance to prove himself before we judge.
He presumably has the political and ministerial maturity to potentially avoid his department coming to refer to him as “a delight to work with”.
Someone needs to have a word with him early on so he is made aware of the endemic abysmal performance/bastardry of CASA (not all at CASA are of this mould).
CASA as an organisation are adept at out manoeuvering politicians.