While Plane Talking has no plans to get between the Courier-Mail and Brisbane Airports while they are exchanging artillery fire, the $2.50 pax new runway levy reported by the former has been denied by the latter.
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Sydney airport congestion and some missing information
Action alert on 2nd Sydney Airport? Ministerial statement, rapid work on Badgerys Creek friendly rail link, hints of more to come. The suspense is …. suspenseful.
READ MOREBrisbane airport debacle spurs Marcoola’s* ambitions
As the enormity of the Brisbane Airport crisis continues to flood the city that finds its growth ambitions hostage to demands for advance funding of a second long runway which will take eight years to complete anyhow, the Sunshine Coast is leveraging the situation for all this it is worth.
READ MOREBrisbane Airport agony gets worse as truth sinks in
The realisation that Sydney could get a second airport faster than Brisbane can get a second long runway at its main airport is causing dismay in Queensland
READ MOREBrisbane Airport runway-to-riches scenario takes flight
It could be termed a ransom demand, except that the Brisbane Airport Corporation hasn’t asked for one, in as many words, although the notion of an airport holding a state economy hostage has a popular media appeal about it, should the subtleties of airport to government signalling break down.
READ MOREFear, loathing and stupidity at Brisbane airport
Brisbane airport last night was a perfect reminder that Australia relies on implausible scenarios, imperfectly screened, to create an impression that air travel is secure. Early in the evening a number of Qantas passengers, the Courier-Mail says there were only three of them, reached their departure gates in the ‘airside’ part of the terminal without [...]
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