11-12-2018, 10:38 PM
TICK TOCK CAIRNS AIRPORT
It seems that Cairns airports issues just won’t go away. It all started a couple of years ago when GA were purposefully squeezed out by deliberate and sustained fees and charges increases aimed at booting them out. Then the airports fantasy of a Heli precinct east of the airport was crushed due to them not considering mangrove impact. Then their fantasy of a DFO being built where the existing GA precinct is on the western side was squashed due to PFOS contamination. Add into the mix a constant run of operations non-conformances and a culture of hiding things and you have a toxic mix. They recently changed security providers and have had a plethora of issues including AMS (OTS) systems test failures. Probably due in part to 7 or 8 NQA security managers bailing in less than 8 years as nobody can stand the now COO bully and her incompetent sidekick. Recently the airport has been pounded again, this time by CASA, for non-conformances which again have been caused in part by a toxic management culture hell bent on hiding problems rather than fixing them. You would think that after 20 years the root cause would be obvious - the COO.
Just another poorly managed airport where our landing fees and charges are meant to provide us with a safe and secure operating environment, yet all we get is harassed by incompetent ARO fools on power trips and we get to park our aircraft on a shitty GA surface that is constantly crumbling and damaging props.
It seems that Cairns airports issues just won’t go away. It all started a couple of years ago when GA were purposefully squeezed out by deliberate and sustained fees and charges increases aimed at booting them out. Then the airports fantasy of a Heli precinct east of the airport was crushed due to them not considering mangrove impact. Then their fantasy of a DFO being built where the existing GA precinct is on the western side was squashed due to PFOS contamination. Add into the mix a constant run of operations non-conformances and a culture of hiding things and you have a toxic mix. They recently changed security providers and have had a plethora of issues including AMS (OTS) systems test failures. Probably due in part to 7 or 8 NQA security managers bailing in less than 8 years as nobody can stand the now COO bully and her incompetent sidekick. Recently the airport has been pounded again, this time by CASA, for non-conformances which again have been caused in part by a toxic management culture hell bent on hiding problems rather than fixing them. You would think that after 20 years the root cause would be obvious - the COO.
Just another poorly managed airport where our landing fees and charges are meant to provide us with a safe and secure operating environment, yet all we get is harassed by incompetent ARO fools on power trips and we get to park our aircraft on a shitty GA surface that is constantly crumbling and damaging props.