[Gobbledock]

Of new airports, soon to be built airports, and existing airports

There certainly appears to be some serious conversations about airports of late.

P2;

"Hmm...wonder if Wagners feature on the EOI construction company list"

Good question. They should be at the top of the list. Why?
Of Wellcamp Airport - the Wagners chose a Greenfield site, spent $100m and built the airport in 18 months. Your damn right they should be a contender to build Badgerys. It was the best airport success story in Australia in 50 years. They used their own quarries for the rocks and their own cement plants for the concrete. Let's see Mike M'ere'dk and Miniscule Numbnuts 6D attempt that! Wellcamp = no imbecilic Government bureaucracy, no long winded red tape, no baloney procurement policies, no Politicians kissing babies and playing with themselves, no indecisiveness, no kissing the asses of big business and looking after mates, nope none of the above.

Of Rockhampton City Council - interesting how RCC has progressed discussions with Adani to build the Adani satellite airport in western Queensland;

https://m.themorningbulletin.com.au/news...r/3140775/

Now the $20m price tag is bollocks, you won't get a kilometre of 45m wide runway for that money, but intent is there (bump the price tag up to $100m and you will be close to the mark). What is interesting is that RCC would build the airport, an airport that is NOT located within its shire. Councils do not normally invest in such a manner in other Councils backyards. Obviously RCC sees values in airports? What a refreshing change, considering most Governments and Councils have been eager to sell off their airports rather than keep them or even build them. But wait, there is more;

Queensland Government considering purchasing airports - a source of information within Treasury has told me that the Queensland Government has been looking for between 7 to 11 airports to purchase in Queensland, and have settled on 4. I know the names of the airports but cannot disclose them yet, but they are all owned by Councils. The Government would therefore be able to purchase the airports directly and form a company to run them, similar to what QAL and NQA have done with several Queensland airports. Very similar to the Badgerys proposal;

"The Weekend Australian understands the government has modelled several funding options, including one based on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme, in which the government would become the principal shareholder in a company set up to operate the ­airport."

So for some strange reason there seems to be a possible shift of the airport pendulum again, a shift from Governments owning airports, to then flogging them off to the highest bidding capitalist vultures, to now wanting to build/own airports again?

I think that within the airports world there is much much more to follow!