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COVID-19 aviation industry downturn: Perfect time for a purge?

Reference Mr A off the UP:

Lead Balloon,


Airservices has a Board, see here for details <https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/about/our-governance/our-board/>
Boards do not get bonuses, contracted managers do, supposedly tied to "performance".

Targets are set each year (I think though it should be longer) and if you meet the target the CEO decides how much of the bonus you get.

It is however a flawed concept, particularly in the Public Service where performance is not very important, because the manager then concentrates on whatever generates the bonus instead of other "non-bonus attracting" activities.

From an online document <https://hbr.org/2016/02/stop-paying-executives-for-performance>

"As the incoming Chief Executive of Deutsche Bank, John Cryan, recently said in an interview: “I have no idea why I was offered a contract with a bonus in it because I promise you I will not work any harder or any less hard in any year, in any day because someone is going to pay me more or less."

Combined with my previous post, got me thinking that perhaps there is a silver lining in the dark COVID-19 clouds massing over the Oz aviation industry? Maybe the 'Luck Country' 's luck has finally run out? However IMO, this could also be a perfect opportunity to reset and rationalise all the normalised deficiencies and excesses of the aviation safety bureaucracy that accumulated over the better part of three decades. Because to be frank, despite the Government's best efforts with stimulus measures, if the current status quo remains beyond the COVID-19 pandemic disaster there will be no miraculous recovery for most sectors of the aviation industry.

IMO the obvious place to start is to clean out the top echelon of bureaucrats of both the aviation safety agencies and the department while completely overhauling/rationalising/reviewing (as per Mr A above) the executive basis for remuneration and reward for performance. 

The following links are from the transparency portals for ASA, CASA and the ATSB executive remuneration for financial year 2018-19:

https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-r...18-2019-23

https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-r...18-2019-66

https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-r...18-2019-86

Certainly gets you contemplating murderous thoughts when you consider Harfwit's obscene salary ([color=#000000][size=small][font=source-sans-pro, Arial, sans-serif]$769,824) before possible bonuses ($113,100); or the fact that St Commode believes working part time earning 500k+, gives him the right to Lord it over small industry players like Angel Flight or Glen Buckley with inflammatory comments like..."I have the power"; or "Because it's easy".





Then consider that there are many industry advocates and subject matter experts who could fill any of the executive trough feeder's shoes; and within a short time frame out perform the current incumbents with a fair, considered and expert approach to their roles, while receiving a greatly reduced base salary and without the requirement of KPI based bonuses.

Hmm...how much would that save the Govt , while ensuring the industry was firmly set on a positive road to recovery??

Much..MTF! P2