Have to agree with many of the posters on this thread.
As a user of many other international airports (pax)
SYD or Fortress Australia as its commonly known is appalling from a PAX point of view. And I am sure it is dreaded by many a business passenger.
Emigration que in the early AM are so long the people are standing in the duty free shop.
The fact that PAX forced to walk through a shop to get to emigration is beyond explanation
The customs bottle neck is another 45 mins to an hour of your time only to be confronted with another rage inciting(documented) Taxi que when you finally make it outside.
Mac Bank have made it absolutely impossible for anyone to pick up an arrived PAX as SYD SIT without using their car park or incurring a $170 fine.
Some legislation or common sense needs to be applied to stem this monopoly from the current miss treatment of international tourists and business people entering SYD as they have no choice of service provider. I use the word service very loosely.
End of rant