Great comments Kurt, thanks for all the analysis and detailed thoughts.
I have one thing which has been in my mind since the closure of the T1 Observation Deck. I have been wondering whether SACL actually did a deal with Rydges (or whoever developed the hotel) that SACL would close the public free observation deck and funnel people to the observation deck offered by Rydges. Maybe SACL could get more commercial benefits from Rydges by agreeing to the closure of the observation deck (again I don't have any proof, I am purely guessing here).
While I agree $10 is a small change (I actually don't mind it by looking at the view as depicted in the facebook photo posted up by Rydges), I am wondering whether this will have future implications for other plane spotting locations around SYD.
I guess only time will tell, but I am content for now given there is still a decent spot available and the price doesn't seem to be unreasonable.
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