Airservices Australia’s mismanagement of Hobart’s flight path implementation is still going after seven years, traumatising communities, baffling the airline industry and costing taxpayers millions.
Now it’s about to destroy Tasmania’s East Coast tourism industry.
Airservices Australia - they just don’t get it do they. Following the disastrous implementation of a new automated satellite-only system without community consultation in September 2017 safety incidents spiked by over 1000 percent, and complaints by even more.
Seven years later, it’s still going, recently changing a decision on implementing recommendations from the 2021 post-implementation review of the 2018 review of the 2017 changes. Utopia has nothing on this. Communities, airlines, airports, even governments, all are left bewildered and wondering who’s in charge. Maybe no-one, since the Airservices CEO resigned in 2023.
Now Airservices plans to direct arriving jets down Tasmania’s East Coast, directly over Maria Island, down Mercury Passage, across Marion Bay and over Dunalley. Yep some of the East Coast air our visitors come down for is about to be filled up with jet aircraft unless something is done.
(Photo from Hobart Airport Facebook)
IF the recommendations from airservices’ post-implementation review are implemented
The saga of Hobart’s flight path implementation, and the effect on small rural Tasmanian communities in the southeast is a disgrace.
Airservices’ latest proposal for the East Coast will have a wider impact, with more communities affected, as well as Tasmania’s visitor economy.
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Consultation on the East Coast jet route closes on 1 December 2024.
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