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Qantaslink helps fix Sydney’s terminal divides with T3 move
No longer to share T2 Sydney, Qantaslink and Tiger: Wikipedia Commons This may seem like a small step, make that steps, in the right direction, but the Qantaslink move from T2 to the main Qantas T3...
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Richmond on the radar for ‘relief’ Sydney flights
An ADF photo of a C-17 low over Richmond, Blue Mountains beyond Richmond keeps going ‘ping’ on the political radar screens as a limited use ‘relief’ airport for Sydney while the solution, a second full...
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Avalon Airport + Cebu Pacific are two underdogs on the way up
A Cebu Pacific A320, part of a fleet of more than 40 but going on 100 airliners In their own right Avalon Airport, Melbourne’s ambitious second airport, and Cebu Pacific, the Philippines second...
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How Emirates-Qantas could sort out Vienna
Peak hour, Bratislava. Wikipedia Commons Europe is not only full of superb old buildings but comical relics of aviation protectionism, as demonstrated by Austrian authorities declaring Vienna airport...
View ArticleACCC damns major airports, urges more investment
The competition authority the ACCC says the five biggest airports in Australia are failing their customers to an unprecedented degree and has called for increased infrastructure investment to overcome...
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Darwin Airport expansion, don’t look until inside
Welcome to Darwin (expanded and improved) courtesy AusBT Darwin Airport is to get a much needed, well priced, and apparently quick expansion of everything from airline lounges to restaurants, and...
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Branson messages lost in PR froth
Virgin Australia's only A320, courtesy the Skywest takeover Richard Branson’s appearance at the Virgin Australia Regional Airlines event in Perth yesterday saw the media all but totally ignore two...
View ArticleSydney airport fiasco about to get worse
There is no escaping the disastrous and deliberate stuff ups in the 2nd Sydney Airport saga that will be made worse today if you read any of the Sydney newspapers. In an unsuccessful attempt at damage...
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Sydney Airport (Wilton) study all about Badgerys Creek
An outsider's guide to the action, or lack of, in Sydney's 2nd airport saga The technical study of Wilton’s suitability as a second Sydney airport site released this morning is a detailed and...
View ArticleCoal may have killed any chance of a Wilton Airport
In a media conference after the release of the Wilton ‘suitability’ study, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese made some observations about mine subsidence that may bury any chance...
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Guess who isn’t building a second Sydney Airport?
What congestion? Good until 2049! A Paul Sadler photo courtesy AirServices Well, that has to be the best news for a new airport in the Sydney basin for years. Sydney Airport chairman, Max Moore Wilton,...
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Melbourne goes daft over DRAFT airport plan
Genius at work as Melbourne Airport goes DRAFT It requires a determined embrace of stupidity in communications for a major Australian airport, in this case Melbourne’s, to issue a very good draft...
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Canberra Airport: Is it time for the Dubai option?
Does this Canberra Airport image show the Atrium partly full or mostly empty? In a story in which an airport is the proxy for the economy that surrounds it, this report in the Canberra Times begs a...
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Sydney’s Master Plan for current airport denies key realities
A Draft Master Plan 2033 graphic with telling emphasis on retail rather than air space It seems that the authors of Sydney Airport’s new yet rehashed draft master plan to 2033 have written off the...
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Notes from Dubai Concourse A
Concourse A Dubai, home to what's left of Qantas's kangaroo routes There are two things new Concourse A at Dubai didn’t do for this traveller, and a few others I spoke to this morning, which was to...
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Kai Tak cruise terminal awakens glory days as airport
How the Kai Tak cruise terminal will look when finished When Kai Tak airport closed on 6 July 1998 its always busy terminal and airline offices were crowded with Hong Kong residents performing their...
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Canberra Airport unfurls a snow cam
Canberra Airport's new approach: Photo Ginette Snow Canberra Airport’s website has not only been updated with a fresh portfolio of photos of its newly expanded and rebuilt terminal, but quite...
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Breakthrough: Virgin Australia signs up for new Brisbane runway
A panoramic view of the BNE International apron: Brisbane Airport photo A breakthrough in Brisbane Airport’s new runway crisis has been made with Virgin Australia agreeing to the funding proposal from...
View ArticleSydney’s 2nd airport could open before Brisbane’s 2nd runway
It may seem fanciful to cynics, but in terms of planning, finance and actual construction, an initial single runway airport could be opened by 2021 at Sydney’s Badgerys Creek airport site for a cost to...
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IATA calls for action, no more talk, on Sydney Airport
There were two issues that IATA Director General and CEO Tony Tyler raised yesterday that seriously affect the jobs and businesses that mightn’t even seem to be air transport related yet depend on its...
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