Perth's New Airport Plan

Bob C · #1 27th April 2008, 04:48 PM

Perth's new airport plan will be released on Thursday and is expected
to consolidate both the domestic and international terminals on both
sides of Horrie Miller Drive.

But Westralia Airports Corpration does not expect any development to be
completed for five to seven years !!!!

Montague S · #2 27th April 2008, 05:05 PM

must be some bloody development if its not expected to be completed for 5 to 7 years...

David Sims · #3 27th April 2008, 06:37 PM

Good to finally see a new airport.

Montague S · #4 27th April 2008, 07:40 PM

its not a new airport...far from it! just some work done to the existing facility!

Rhys Xanthis · #5 28th April 2008, 03:45 PM

better be a whole new airport.

Coming back from MEL last night, saw they have finally opened up a new carousel for QF, and opened indoor access to Virgin, Tiger, Skywest, Alliance and every other airline.

They havent had something like that open since Ansett ceased ops...

Bob C · #6 28th April 2008, 04:47 PM

No, it won't be "a whole new airport", Rhys !

All the discussions to date have been about consolidating the Domestic and International terminals at the site of the existing International terminal plus additional infrastructure.

It's useless to speculate at this stage so we should just wait another few days for the official announcement.

Scott Loveday · #7 30th April 2008, 12:24 AM

Folks,

Is it that the announcement will be in the form of the original master plan for 2024, but being brought forward somewhat?

Incidentally, came through international on Sunday night - quickest experience ever through immigration and quarantine. From aircraft seat to carpark only 15-20 mins.

Cheers

Bob C · #8 30th April 2008, 05:30 AM

I don't know Scott.

We will just have to wait another day to find out.

Montague S · #9 1st May 2008, 10:34 AM

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...ction=business

first off will be Terminal WA which will be for the mining and WA movements..then a consolidation of domestic & international terminals on the international side.

$90 million will be allocated for Terminal WA.

Quote:

* a merged terminal, full completion in 7 years.
* 4x the size of the current international terminal once complete.
* a new 100m regional terminal situated at the location of the international terminal. I presume it is part of the integrated structure. Has priority.
* Qantas is fully behind the project. This is important
* Projected cost - 1 billion dollars.
* 2 hotels
* Infrastructure - new road brdige at Tokin and Leech Hwy
* Infrastructure - "rail link now possible"
* Infrastructure - "immediate" opening/construction of road link between current domestic and international terminal that will cut travel time in half.
* Multistory carpark to be constructed for new terminal

Rhys Xanthis · #10 1st May 2008, 12:06 PM

The head of the WAC was on 882 6PR this morning. Explaining it.

It seems like a pretty good plan...he said there would be 40 gates.

However i get the uneasy feeling that this will all eventually become like the current terminals...

I'm not filled with confidence about how they are going to do it, but hopefully when tehy do it will be great.

Also, i didnt know they were building an internal road from Domestic to Intl...spotting locations ahoy