Here is the 'inside' word from the Guvmint that you won't get told over the 6 o'clock news.
After the 2007 Garuda crash Australia WAS going to follow suit and ban them from flying into Aus. However, our dear Indon friends told the Guvmint that if they banned Garuda then they (Indonesia) would ban Aus carriers using Indonesian airspace. The EU and the FAA had already banned them and the financial impost was starting to bite hard, so they didn't want Australia adding to their financial pain. But a bit further into this, if you cast your minds back you will remember that the Rat was pretty much the main Aus operator that would be drastically affected.
It would have impacted, from memory, around 65% of their international flights and add around an extra 3-4 hours flight time. This, in turn would have meant that much of its fleet type would have become pretty much useless overnight. (The facts and figures are rough guesstimates from memory, but based on internal Government papers I was given).
Now of course the Guvmint couldn't allow the Rat to be wounded, plus the political fallout and facial eggs may have cost those in political power their jobs, hence the Indonesian Transportation Safety Assistance Program was born. (It's probably on Google, somewhere, but I couldn't be bothered breaking it down here). But the basis was to create a smoke screen, it was hatched so as to allow the Indons to keep flying to Aus while Aus provided funding an training for Indon carriers and the DGCA.
End result? 'Improved safety' is achieved, Australia still gets to use the Indon's airspace, the Rat isn't disadvantaged, and the Pollies dodge some nasty political fallout! What a swell arrangement!
It was high level turd polishing of the highest order, not to mention that Australia yet again got a BOHICA from one of its neighbours, one who it has given, literally, billions to over the years!!
Now I wonder who the chief turd polisher was at that particular time? Well I will give you a hint - short, stocky, no neck, but has a giant head!
Aagh friends, it's all a game of tautology.
P.S Don't ever ask the Screamer what he thinks about providing Australian CAsA resources to other countries for their 'assistance'! Oh my, it ain't pretty!
Safer skies for all? Not really.
Tick tock? Definitely
MTF? Absolutely.............
After the 2007 Garuda crash Australia WAS going to follow suit and ban them from flying into Aus. However, our dear Indon friends told the Guvmint that if they banned Garuda then they (Indonesia) would ban Aus carriers using Indonesian airspace. The EU and the FAA had already banned them and the financial impost was starting to bite hard, so they didn't want Australia adding to their financial pain. But a bit further into this, if you cast your minds back you will remember that the Rat was pretty much the main Aus operator that would be drastically affected.
It would have impacted, from memory, around 65% of their international flights and add around an extra 3-4 hours flight time. This, in turn would have meant that much of its fleet type would have become pretty much useless overnight. (The facts and figures are rough guesstimates from memory, but based on internal Government papers I was given).
Now of course the Guvmint couldn't allow the Rat to be wounded, plus the political fallout and facial eggs may have cost those in political power their jobs, hence the Indonesian Transportation Safety Assistance Program was born. (It's probably on Google, somewhere, but I couldn't be bothered breaking it down here). But the basis was to create a smoke screen, it was hatched so as to allow the Indons to keep flying to Aus while Aus provided funding an training for Indon carriers and the DGCA.
End result? 'Improved safety' is achieved, Australia still gets to use the Indon's airspace, the Rat isn't disadvantaged, and the Pollies dodge some nasty political fallout! What a swell arrangement!
It was high level turd polishing of the highest order, not to mention that Australia yet again got a BOHICA from one of its neighbours, one who it has given, literally, billions to over the years!!
Now I wonder who the chief turd polisher was at that particular time? Well I will give you a hint - short, stocky, no neck, but has a giant head!
Aagh friends, it's all a game of tautology.
P.S Don't ever ask the Screamer what he thinks about providing Australian CAsA resources to other countries for their 'assistance'! Oh my, it ain't pretty!
Safer skies for all? Not really.
Tick tock? Definitely
MTF? Absolutely.............