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Moorabbin AIrport: The Ugly Side of Airport Privatisation - AOPA Australia

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Join the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia for an open and candid conversation with representativesof the Moorabbin Airport Chamber of Commerce and local Moorabbin Airport aircraft owners and pilots, as we discussthe wholesale non-aviation development of the airport, examining the ugly side of airport privatisation.

THIS WEEKS PANELISTS
- Benjamin Morgan: Chief Executive Officer, AOPA Australia
- Milton Holmes:  President, Moorabbin Airport Chamber of Commerce
- Allan Middleton:  CEO, Moorabbin Airport Chamber of Commerce
- Dr Sean Runacres:  Moorabbin DAME, Aircraft Owner & Pilot
- Kris Constandopoulos:  Director, Oasis Flight Training Moorabbin

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Comments:

Sandy Reith · 19:27 expecting all the operators to work together is looking for an ideal but there will always be a real problem due to General Aviation being under tremendous stress by the depredations of an out of control regulator CASA. I don’t agree that what has happened is the fault of the industry. We do need to engage regularly with our MPs, ring write or contact your MPs and call for reform.

Ralph Holland · 49:20 Unfortunately GA is further eroded, GA customers move on, GA maintenance and operators are forced out of trade so our sky’s become empty. I think a royal commission is probably too late. The damage has been done and if we wish for GA to survive we will have to do so in another country.

Ralph Holland · 36:35 Well at least one positive thing may come from this; less need for staff in CASA because there will be nothing left to regulate and scrape fees out of.

Ralph Holland · 27:27 Greedy property developers subsuming land set aside for aviation infrastructure; eroding sovereign security of aviation and the nation.

Ralph Holland · 32:30 GA is where flying starts; when GA is eroded all aviation will suffer; where are those airport owners going to get their passengers and customers from; I know it’s Costco and the retirement villages that they will setup in their wake.

Sandy Reith · 28:24 The privatised model is wrong in every way because the incentives are not in favour of the prime purpose for maintaining an airport. We should should call for the airside to remain for aircraft use in exactly the same way as are roads. The landside should be sold off as freehold lots. In this way businesses can build their infrastructure, have collateral for loans and security of tenure which is imperative for any successful business.

Ralph Holland · 42:14 We can drive our cars anywhere within reason, but the only place we can land an aeroplane is at landing areas aka airport.

Sandy Reith · 37:58 Sean, quite right about the importance of GA to the country. We have already lost around 1500 flying schools due to the most horrendous avalanche of unworkable rules and associated fee gouging by CASA, read Government. We must redouble our efforts to get the ear of MPs.

Ralph Holland · 40:45 There should be an embargo on property developers being allowed anywhere near an Aerodrome rubbing their hands with glee.

Sandy Reith · Good move Ben and AOPA Australia. We need to publicise the loss of irreplaceable airport land allowed by a total lack of responsibility on behalf of the Minister McCormack and the Government. Like Bankstown, adjacent golf courses protected by state governments. What priorities are we seeing here?

Stephen Bennett · 44:48 We the aviation community are terribly complacaite which is why we are loosing our aviation assets. Get active people. Get together with your aero club. Lobby your local politician. Support our strong industry association like AOPA.

Dave Berenholtz · 41:55 The solution is to either have the government buy back our airports or legislate for aviation use with enforceable guidelines with existing owners. Our challenge is to convince politicians of the value of affordable aviation at airports for the benefit of the whole community. IMHO only via political intervention will airports in the future have airplanes!

Ric Wilson · 0:00 Too little too late - I think we have lost the airport. These property developers use managers on bonus incentive to fast track sections of development then change them. With their office in lock down they have a good excuse for ignoring phone calls and emails - even from the media asking questions about how GA will respond to future national disasters.

Philip Munro · 1:08 Airports should be classed as essential transport infrastructure and be classed such!!

Michael Stowell · 51:20 It has further implications that most people outside of GA don’t get. Our freedoms are being eroded and GA is a category that most people aren’t involved in and therefore don’t care. When they sell off parks, beaches, golf courses, tennis courts etc, then people will understand and get upset.

Michael Stowell · 51:20 It has further implications that most people outside of GA don’t get. Our freedoms are being eroded and GA is a category that most people aren’t involved in and therefore don’t care. When they sell off parks, beaches, golf courses, tennis courts etc, then people will understand and get upset.

Ric Wilson · 0:00 No - crushing out airports paves the way for property developers to make more profits. They don't care about how vital GA is and it cannot be sold to their hardened and brainwashed handlers.

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