MASCOT - THE MASTICATING AIRPORT
Sydney airport has been chewing on the same meal for 21 years - a daily restricted diet of 80 movements per hour. Back then, in 1997 Australia had 18.5m people. In 2018 we have 24.7m people. In 1996 Sydney’s population was 3.8m people. Sydney’s population in 2017 was 5.1m people. A massive increase in numbers and my lightweight analysis doesn’t include the increase in business, leisure and freight. Yet the airport has been held back to third world operating standards.
From the article;
“TTF chief executive Margy Osmond said that while the proposed $5.3 billion Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek would be curfew-free, there was a wait of at least eight years before it started operating and “both leisure and business travellers will in the interim continue to be inconvenienced by delays caused by unforeseen events such as severe weather or aircraft issues”.
Yep, that’s another 8 years of increased growth that will be held back by another 8 years of airport restrictions at Mascot.
And;
“Federal government restrictions introduced in 1997 limit the number of runway movements at Sydney to 80 per hour, with the caps measured over a “rolling” hour that starts every 15 minutes — stopping airlines from recovering times when flights fall behind if the new times would push out the hourly cap”.
That would be a starting point, but it’s a token one. The issue is above just Sydney airport. The restrictions on movements costs this country tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year. Some estimates put it at $50 to $100 billion each year. All because incompetent Governments and their Ministerial wankers are scared of losing their seats to the voters if restrictions are removed.
Well, the time has come. This bullshit cannot continue. It’s time to pull the plug on these archaic third world restrictions, lift the curfews and the movement cap and have the airport act in the capacity of what it is - Australia’s number 1 gateway. The ponces dwelling in the affluent suburbs can just suck it up. If you don’t like it then sell up and piss of to Capital Hill or Woden, Canberra.
It’s not only GA that’s being strangled. Tick Tock
Sydney airport has been chewing on the same meal for 21 years - a daily restricted diet of 80 movements per hour. Back then, in 1997 Australia had 18.5m people. In 2018 we have 24.7m people. In 1996 Sydney’s population was 3.8m people. Sydney’s population in 2017 was 5.1m people. A massive increase in numbers and my lightweight analysis doesn’t include the increase in business, leisure and freight. Yet the airport has been held back to third world operating standards.
From the article;
“TTF chief executive Margy Osmond said that while the proposed $5.3 billion Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek would be curfew-free, there was a wait of at least eight years before it started operating and “both leisure and business travellers will in the interim continue to be inconvenienced by delays caused by unforeseen events such as severe weather or aircraft issues”.
Yep, that’s another 8 years of increased growth that will be held back by another 8 years of airport restrictions at Mascot.
And;
“Federal government restrictions introduced in 1997 limit the number of runway movements at Sydney to 80 per hour, with the caps measured over a “rolling” hour that starts every 15 minutes — stopping airlines from recovering times when flights fall behind if the new times would push out the hourly cap”.
That would be a starting point, but it’s a token one. The issue is above just Sydney airport. The restrictions on movements costs this country tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year. Some estimates put it at $50 to $100 billion each year. All because incompetent Governments and their Ministerial wankers are scared of losing their seats to the voters if restrictions are removed.
Well, the time has come. This bullshit cannot continue. It’s time to pull the plug on these archaic third world restrictions, lift the curfews and the movement cap and have the airport act in the capacity of what it is - Australia’s number 1 gateway. The ponces dwelling in the affluent suburbs can just suck it up. If you don’t like it then sell up and piss of to Capital Hill or Woden, Canberra.
It’s not only GA that’s being strangled. Tick Tock