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.

Rhys Xanthis · #7 28th April 2008, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby C

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.

By whole new airport, i mean a whole new terminal (bad choice of words i guess), which will obviously have to be built if everything is to take place at the site of the international terminal (which is probably the best option)

Lukas M · #8 28th April 2008, 05:54 PM

They should design it like Adelaide, just one long terminal with International in the middle or whatever

Montague S · #9 28th April 2008, 06:35 PM

well Lukas if you had a clue about Perth then you'd know that your idea wouldn't work...

Rhys Xanthis · #10 28th April 2008, 07:39 PM

we should just build a big long shed..it will probably be more productive than the current domestic airport...

Being there last night, ill illustrate the picture:

Taxi queue has 4 lanes of about 10-15m snaking around. This is just at that start of the Virgin terminal (Qantas side).

The line then continued and continued and continued until it almost hit the end of the Qantas terminal.
*opens google earth*
going by my quick measurements that probably arent that accurate, the queue was at least 200m long to get a taxi.

Thank God i didnt have to get one..