Good for you mate. I hope that made you feel better. Guess what, some 1 million people do actually live here and most of them don't give a flying f*ck what people think of Adelaide. I'm happy living here but I am getting ready to move interstate (most likely up north) as I have a .0000001% chance of finding my first flying job here. Big deal.
Can we get back to the friggin terminal now!?
"Perhaps one alternative is for the new airport to waive ALL fees for airlines until the fuel is at an acceptable level, to try to get the terminal up and running?"
Hier that doesn't really make sense. To get the terminal up and running you need aircraft, to get aircraft you need fuel. If the fuel isn't at an acceptable level then no amount of fee waiving will get them to shift to the new terminal.
As an old man said on the news the other night "we've been waiting 40 years for this terminal, whats another 3 months!?"