Sooner or later, either here or elsewhere, airlines are going to be hit with a carbon tax that will both reduce flights and push up costs to the point that only the obscenely wealthy can afford to use what is left, and the fact remains that the hottest locality in the Sydney region is a really stupid place to have an airport.
Either that, or the emissions will simply be banned and they have to find some other way of flying, like solar powered blimps. There aren’t enough oil seed crops in the world for Branson’s “carbon neutral” avgas.
Just saying
Tony
> On 5 Dec 2023, at 14:54, Matthew Geier matthew@...> wrote:
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>> Talking about connections to Sydney Airport - still many people don't get it. There won't be much demand from the east, most of it will be from the west, NW and SW. Both airports will provide the range of local, national and international flights. Travellers in the east will have everything they need from Sydney Airport and travellers from the west will, progressively, have everything they need from Western Sydney Airport. Western Sydney Airport will also serve travellers from the Blue Mountains and Central West, from the Southern Highlands and from the Illawarra (from where a fast rail connection is proposed on top of the exiting motorways).
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> That is assuming airlines want to run TWO of very service, international and domestic. In practice people will go with the cheapest airfare and with Sydney's status as a gateway, there will be a lot of traffic between the two airports with tourists transferring from international to domestic and the other way. I think you will find airlines running their own (charter) coaches between the two airports.
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> The real money is business travel and that probably primarily will be Sydney east still. So that will always have the better timetable. And the bottom has just fallen out of the air freight market anyway - fuel costs are killing them.
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> The feds will have to keep blocking east coast HSR, as it would financially kill the 2nd Sydney airport.
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