05-09-2017, 10:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2017, 10:48 AM by thorn bird.)
Having been laid up for a while with time on my hands, I was doing a lot of reading and listening. Amazing what you find and hear. Bits and pieces from newspapers, magazines and other media, some concerning aviation, some not necessarily about aviation but very relevant where parallels can be drawn to illustrate just why aviation regulation is so screwed up.
Opening gambit from News.com.au, confirmed that my suspicion the quoted cost of Sydney's new western airport appeared just a tad overinflated.
Julia Carlisle
Australian Associated Press
High-flying businessman John Wagner says he could build Sydney's second international airport for much less than its touted $6 billion pricetag.
Mr Wagner and his brothers were behind the Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba that opened late 2014, the first major airport to be built from scratch in Australia since Melbourne's Tullamarine in 1970.
The airport, with its 2.87km runway capable of handling aircraft as big as a Boeing 747, took 19 months and 10 days to build, and cost $200 million.
Mr Wagner says he could build Sydney's Badgerys Creek airport in three years.
"We just can't see that it would cost that much, and the high-level work that we have internally here would indicate that it shouldn't cost that much," Mr Wagner told ABC on Tuesday.
The federal government last week committed to building the Badgerys Creek airport after Sydney Airport Corporation, which operates the existing Mascot airport, walked away, citing "considerable" risks.
"It is a vitally important project for western Sydney, for Sydney and the nation," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement.
Earthworks on Sydney's second international airport are due to start next year and is likely to be operational by late-2026.
Last year Infrastructure Australia costed the first stage of the Badgerys Creek airport at $5 billion.
Further details are to be outlined in Tuesday's federal budget.
I guess this just confirms that anything the Bureaucrats get mixed up in ends up costing the poor old taxpayer far more than it should.
Opening gambit from News.com.au, confirmed that my suspicion the quoted cost of Sydney's new western airport appeared just a tad overinflated.
Julia Carlisle
Australian Associated Press
High-flying businessman John Wagner says he could build Sydney's second international airport for much less than its touted $6 billion pricetag.
Mr Wagner and his brothers were behind the Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba that opened late 2014, the first major airport to be built from scratch in Australia since Melbourne's Tullamarine in 1970.
The airport, with its 2.87km runway capable of handling aircraft as big as a Boeing 747, took 19 months and 10 days to build, and cost $200 million.
Mr Wagner says he could build Sydney's Badgerys Creek airport in three years.
"We just can't see that it would cost that much, and the high-level work that we have internally here would indicate that it shouldn't cost that much," Mr Wagner told ABC on Tuesday.
The federal government last week committed to building the Badgerys Creek airport after Sydney Airport Corporation, which operates the existing Mascot airport, walked away, citing "considerable" risks.
"It is a vitally important project for western Sydney, for Sydney and the nation," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement.
Earthworks on Sydney's second international airport are due to start next year and is likely to be operational by late-2026.
Last year Infrastructure Australia costed the first stage of the Badgerys Creek airport at $5 billion.
Further details are to be outlined in Tuesday's federal budget.
I guess this just confirms that anything the Bureaucrats get mixed up in ends up costing the poor old taxpayer far more than it should.