The airport will also be having an interesting time dealing with the inevitable public kneejerk-backlash.
Might be timely to remember the airport was there long before almost all of the residents surrounding it.
Oh yes, the NIMBY crowd are already out saying the airport should be moved.
From today's 'Age' newspaper:
Locals fear more deaths if airport does not move | theage.com.au
Dandenong councillor Peter Brown said the airport should move to the city fringes. "If nothing has provided … evidence that there is chronic mismanagement of air traffic over the residential area, then this should," he wrote in an email to councillors at Kingston Council yesterday.
They always conveniently forget that when all these airports were built, there were no houses within cooee of the area. Same at Essendon, and its starting to happen out Tullamarine way too. In the meantime, local councils are happy to be the beneficiary of the economic benefits that have flowed and continue to flow from the aviation activity.
Condolences to all concerned.