07-02-2015, 09:07 PM
Let's dig down into the relevance of GA shall we? From the land of Stars and Stripes comes this article;
"GA contributes $219 billion and 1.1 million jobs to U.S. economy"-
http://generalaviationnews.com/2015/02/1...s-economy/
Ok, so we aren't the USA, but my point is that GA provides both jobs and much needed moolah that feeds into the economy. FFS, why don't our politicians get this? For far to long Australian GA has been treated as some sort of annoyance, a thorn in the side of the entire nation, a mysterious creature that most don't understand so let's stomp on it like it is a bug!
There is a serious lack of knowledge and understanding in Australia about Helo operations, small charters, tourism, Ag, flight and maintenance training schools, owner operators, joyflighters and the list goes on. The industry, as mentioned before, creates jobs from which all individuals pay tax. There is a flow on affect on to other parts of the aviation industry as well as the fuel industry, parts, import/export, ground handling, infrastructure building and maintenance, airports, etc etc etc. and let's not forget essential services such as freight, mail, medical and community services. This is just a snapshot off the top of my head and doesn't cover the half of it.
So Miniscule, it might pay for you to ponder over this for just a moment as you, as DPM, preside over a portfolio that you are either just to disengaged to be interested in, simply do not understand and just couldn't be bothered to understand it, or you don't have the balls to step up to the plate, take your portfolio by the short and curly's and finally do something before it is to late.
Farmboy said;
“Under Section 18 of the Airports Act 1996, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport and Sydney West Airport—as it is known in the Act—must be under common ownership,” Mr Truss said.
“The Airports Amendment Bill will remove this requirement, providing the Australian Government with the commercial flexibility to deal with third parties or develop the airport itself if agreement cannot be reached with Sydney Airport.
Hmmm, well seeing is believing. However should the Government of the day (whoever that will be) grow the balls to go through with this and break the monopoly then we could see some profits finally remain in-house and spent on other aviation infrastructure. Imagine an airport generating billions in revenue and that coin being put back into the industry??? But I'm not holding my breath.
On a final note here is a good reason why profits need to be put back into infrastructure sooner rather than later;
“Many of our smaller regional airports are World War II era and due to financial pressures often a patch-up is done rather than the substantive works required. You can only patch up runways for so long and there are many airports that are now facing ‘end of life’ issues with pavements,” said AAA chief executive Caroline Wilkie.
Tick tock goes our lifeblood,tick tock
"GA contributes $219 billion and 1.1 million jobs to U.S. economy"-
http://generalaviationnews.com/2015/02/1...s-economy/
Ok, so we aren't the USA, but my point is that GA provides both jobs and much needed moolah that feeds into the economy. FFS, why don't our politicians get this? For far to long Australian GA has been treated as some sort of annoyance, a thorn in the side of the entire nation, a mysterious creature that most don't understand so let's stomp on it like it is a bug!
There is a serious lack of knowledge and understanding in Australia about Helo operations, small charters, tourism, Ag, flight and maintenance training schools, owner operators, joyflighters and the list goes on. The industry, as mentioned before, creates jobs from which all individuals pay tax. There is a flow on affect on to other parts of the aviation industry as well as the fuel industry, parts, import/export, ground handling, infrastructure building and maintenance, airports, etc etc etc. and let's not forget essential services such as freight, mail, medical and community services. This is just a snapshot off the top of my head and doesn't cover the half of it.
So Miniscule, it might pay for you to ponder over this for just a moment as you, as DPM, preside over a portfolio that you are either just to disengaged to be interested in, simply do not understand and just couldn't be bothered to understand it, or you don't have the balls to step up to the plate, take your portfolio by the short and curly's and finally do something before it is to late.
Farmboy said;
“Under Section 18 of the Airports Act 1996, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport and Sydney West Airport—as it is known in the Act—must be under common ownership,” Mr Truss said.
“The Airports Amendment Bill will remove this requirement, providing the Australian Government with the commercial flexibility to deal with third parties or develop the airport itself if agreement cannot be reached with Sydney Airport.
Hmmm, well seeing is believing. However should the Government of the day (whoever that will be) grow the balls to go through with this and break the monopoly then we could see some profits finally remain in-house and spent on other aviation infrastructure. Imagine an airport generating billions in revenue and that coin being put back into the industry??? But I'm not holding my breath.
On a final note here is a good reason why profits need to be put back into infrastructure sooner rather than later;
“Many of our smaller regional airports are World War II era and due to financial pressures often a patch-up is done rather than the substantive works required. You can only patch up runways for so long and there are many airports that are now facing ‘end of life’ issues with pavements,” said AAA chief executive Caroline Wilkie.
Tick tock goes our lifeblood,tick tock