Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
What makes Australian infrastructure so inefficient vs other countries with the same runway configurations?
The crossing RWY configuration as utilised in YMML for example is not current practice at major airports around the world, if the money is available to build parallels this is done to significantly improve traffic flow.
The money, or the will to improve the situation in YMML apparently doesn't exist.
I believe you would discover that at other airports around the world with a similar configuration they would also have to wait for a landing aircraft to pass through the RWY intersection before they could depart an aircraft on the crossing RWY.
It's that simple I'm afraid.