The Aviation Industry Association, representing many commercial operators, said it had been very expensive for aviation professionals to try to have adverse decisions reviewed.
“We have supported the establishment of an independent review function,”
Aviation Industry Association chief executive Simon Wallace said today.
Aviation Industry Association (AIANZ) Chief Executive Simon Wallace said today.
“Now that the independent review system is law, the scope of the decisions must be as broad as possible,”
the association said previously in its submission on the independent review of the director of Civil Aviation’s decisions.
“Having fees for an independent review is a safeguard for appealing anything and everything,”
The association also suggested independent reviewers include one person with technical or engineering experience and one person with operations experience at any one time, not lawyers or professional investigators without aviation industry experience.
Read the full NZ Herald article by John Weekes here.