New Tower - Who Pays For It?

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

From the 'Broome Advertiser' dated Nov 26.........

"Broome's skyline could soon have a new addition in the form of a 20m tall air traffic control tower and aviation fire service building.
The tower, to be built at Broome International Airport next year, is expected to cost about $6.5million and will be roughly the same size as the current Bureau of Met. tower adjacent to the airport, making it one of the tallest structures in Broome."

The article goes on to say that the increase in pax numbers this year had led to an upgrade of the services.
"There's been a fire service in Broome for a number of years. However, once the number of passengers is over 350,000 a year we provide the air traffic control service" - according to a spokesman for AsA.

The new aviation fire service building will be incorporated into the control tower building....

Does this cost get 'passed on' to the operators who fly in / out of Broome, as well as paying AsA for the ATC service?

Not forgetting the charges to BIA for the provision of their services?

How will this affect the 'tourist' operators?

[Dangly Bits]

AsA are paying for it out of the goodness of their heart.....;)

[topend3]

"There's been a fire service in Broome for a number of years. However, once the number of passengers is over 350,000 a year we provide the air traffic control service" - according to a spokesman for AsA.


then either the paper or AsA need to check their facts...fire service linked to pax but tower? No.

[Like This - Do That]

I noted that in CASA's May 2009 paper one of the recommendations was to apply "business controls to limit (or manage) traffic movements during the daily RPT arrival and departure peak periods to those levels experienced in the Dry season 2008. BIA has agreed to implement these controls."

"Business controls" sounds awfully like "send a price signal" :eek:

Airpsace reforms will still just be moving the bottleneck until the lack of full strength parallel taxiways (identified as a threat) has been addressed. But I guess that's infrastructure spending that nobody wants to make.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

G'Day 'Topend',

That's how it was reported - however I do belive the 'tower' is linked to the 'traffic complexity' and the number of 'movements'.....

Cheers

[Dick N. Cider]

Like always in this end of the business it's simple. CASA says "Jump", AsA says "How high?"