GAM Cairns gone under today
 

Unconfirmed rumour from a mate. Anyone know?

On Channel 7 Local News, Cairns - GAM Cairns closed due to rent being increased by four times.

Absolute disgrace. :*

Surprise, surprise! Cairns Port Authority charges used to make even Sydney Airport charges look like a church donation!

...And Melissa is going to get the hangar demolished so Cairns Aiports P/L cant use it...:) She said on the news tonight it will be pulled apart...

Methinks there may be a little bit of spin here

No spin!

CPA does not operate the airport any more - Cairns Airport P/L - Qld Govt sold it to pay for a new hospital, which is not yet in the planning stage and not likely to be!:mad:

Rent up x 4times - what do you expect?:eek::eek:

GA is dead at CNS if this policy continues. Only a few have long term leases now.:eek:

Slim chance the airport authority might revisit decision post media coverage, but that is what happens when accountants with no aviation knowledge run airports.... Lack of Govt support at any level does not help!

We have seen it before and will no doubt see it again. Only when GA is dead will someone realise what they have done!

:mad::mad::mad:

Spirax
what I meant was.... The rent isn't the only reason why it has gone under. In fact I would say it is only a small part.

Sorry Av8, but the company has not "gone under"... it has decided to close a base on the basis of the large rent increase on the airport premises, which I suggest none of the GA companies either at CNS or anywhere else for that matter could accept.

GAM sold pauls last year. It is now part of skydiving Australia.

Spirax, what about the rumour then that Weipa Air is up for sale?

Everything is usually for sale ... at a price!

Depends which crystal ball you use as to what you might see.... who knows?

The issue here is not GAM, but the future of GA under airport owners that only see $$$'s and know nothing about aviation and GA in particular.

As I heard it, the rents went up astronomically to help pay for that f..kup of a terminal on the RPT side of the airport - lot of use to GA :ugh::ugh::ugh:

So who is going to win their contracts, going to be good to see who does???

How much work were the Dorniers doing??

Looked like there were some1900s and Brazs not doing a huge amount of flying. Those operators must be happy to get a bit more work.


Heard the airport had put up rent 3 or 4 times. Good stuff Cairns Airport!! :ugh:

GAM closing due to airport costs.....

Brindabella closing their flight school due to airport costs.....

3 large schools bankrupt at YSBK.....(OK - maybe more to do with bad management than YSBK costs)

Hmmmm. Is GA destined to only survive at country airports?.

Gone by the 28th of May. All to be bulldozed. The aircraft still have a substantial amount of work at the moment but will be based elsewhere. More to go aparrently. GA is dying...

What a joke :ugh:

General Aviation will go back to being a sport for the wealthy.

The main problem I see is the price of land in Australia is unaffordable, small airports occupy large portions of it that greedy developers would love to get their hands on it. Capitalism requires unsustainable growth for the shareholders and they want to squeeze every penny out of the operators for the privilege of using this expensive land. The operators are trying to compete for work with each other often doing things at cost to find work for the aeroplane in the hope of other charters supplying the income once the bread and butter is taken care of. These charters are few and far between.

From what I have seen, most of these operators last 5 years or so, then the next one comes in and does the same thing.

Airports should not be privatized full stop. Do we allow the same thing to happen to ports and bus and train stations?

The government should never have sold off the telcos, the power companies or the airports as now big business squeezes every last drop out of the average Australian and the rich and big business keep getting richer, while our conditions are eroded to compete with third world countries where the cost of living and wages are a pittance.

Yes :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Welcome to Anna Bligh's Queensland. Closely modelled on other states run by the same lot! :mad:

Jaba.....Anna will succumb to the same fate as Capt Bligh of the Bounty! Its only a matter of a short time mate. Again the question is raised...who picks up the tab for the mess?? one guess!!