Originally Posted by
BuzzBox
Keg said:
Why can't Qantas process its domestic passengers through T1, as it did when JNB flights operated through PER in the past?
This is NOT a MEL- PER- JNB service- or SYD or BNE. Additionally when they tag the JNB flight through to (say) SYD or MEL or BNE they then need to transfer the pax from the connecting regional services across to the international terminal for the 'domestic service'. Let's not add the confusion of lost passengers turning up to the domestic terminal for their 'domestic flight' to MEL.... which just happens to be departing from a different terminal to their previous domestic flight.
The point many seem to be missing is that the business case for international services ex PER to places like JNB, LHR (and other places that are on the drawing board) can be quite heavily dependent on a number of little things all coming together to make the case. Things like connections from regional or perhaps interstate ports such as ADL, DRW, BNE, etc. Make these connections difficult and it's tick in the cons column for the business case. Adding at least a 30 min connection for pax transferring terminals (probably closer to 45) or more than an hour if needing to changing an aeroplane can be enough to influence people's choice along the lines of what angryrat has pointed out. Club facilities in T4 are good enough to cope with the expanded services with virtually nil additional cost. The club facilities at T1 would require additional staff and resources. Another tick in the cons box.
I always thought the aim of an airport was to get as many pax through the doors as possible. It seems that's not PAC's aim.
So we can argue about semantics about medium term or long term. The reality is that PAC has no coherent plan for the the short term or medium term that will address what Qantas wants to try and achieve in the short to medium term. 2025 is off in the never- never in aviation terms.