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.
They have a plan, it is in the airport master plan, it's just that implementing it will cost big dollars and start affecting bonuses.So the can just keeps being kicked down the road and they just keep on jacking up the forecast figures in their annual reports but don't actually do any thing to facilitate this. This is the same airport that a few years back denied that it needed an extra runway despite every flight departing late. At the time they were stating that it was the operators fault because everyone wanted to depart at the same time and that operators should change their schedules to fit into the airport. A similar thing happened in Brisbane who were basically embarrassed into building a runway after asking the airlines to pay them to build it
The issue is not privatisation per se it is the fact that all these airports have been gifted monopolies. If someone came along and build a competing airport on the outskirts of Perth I'm sure that you will start seeing things change at YPPH