Denabol,
Have you ever been to Dallas? Over 70% of American Airlines flights go through this hub. To have an airport in the bush will drive the country to decentralise. Obviously the Macquarie Banks of the world will not support it because it takes away from there revenue base unless of course they have a piece of the action. Australia has not undertaken a major infrastructure project since the Snowy Mountains Scheme. China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia(Jakarta has had three airports in 40 years) have all invested heavily in airport infrastructure while India is now trying to catch up. Sydney airport remains in place as a major feeder to "Trangie International" and if you pull out a map you see the Dubbo area is equi-distant to Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney. First concentrate on an airline feed and eventually the road and rail infrastructure will come. Build an airport we can be proud of now instead of a "just in time" solution as we have seen with Sydney in the past and Brisbane and Perth more recently. The problem for Sydney will be within 2 years. Can you imagine 6 A380s arriving at the same time. Absolute bedlam! Even more than today.
How much will all this engineering cost to redesign the the Kurnell peninsular? We are victims of our own success in this country and while we try to build airlines through growth we are fast coming up with a roadblock being not able to cope with this and spending more and more time circling or in airport queues. You just have to go to Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing to see how far we are falling behind. Someone has to bite the bullet.
