[Wombat]

Could someone ask CASA this question and copy their answer to all concerned;

Did other training providers in Australia operate under a substantially similar business model - subcontracting their AOC to other training providers at the time CASA initially acted to restrict APTAs activities? Yes or No?

If the answer is yes, how many other training providers in Australia operated under an arrangement substantially similar at that time?

Were such arrangements, if any, of long standing? Say for three or more years or were these a matter of short term administrative convenience for perhaps a matter of a few weeks?

If the answer to any of the foregoing questions are “yes” and more than one operator (APTA) engaged in substantially similar operations over considerable time, how many of these operators were served with notices restricting their activities in the same way and at the same time as APTA?

If not, why not?

If the APTA business model had features unacceptable to CASA, compared to models that apparently do exist, then why wouldn’t CASA permit APTA to modify its models into a compliant form?

Failing that, and given CASA’s obvious commitment to a thriving industry, why did not CASA explore the possibility of seeking an exemption from the Minister for the offending as it regularly does?