I shouldn't be saying this because it will give Qantas ideas.
The smartest thing QF can do with that hangar and facility is to keep paying the rent indefinitiely and use it if necessary to store toilet paper and plastic forks - anything to deny another airline possible access to airport infrastructure which is at a premium everywhere.
To put that another way, the planning and permit costs of building something like that again are stratospheric today. They were even stratospheric when I was working next door in the 1970's. It would be better for Qantas to demolish them rather than give (say) Virgin access to a relatively cheap facility.
At the very least they need to put an oxy torch through any B737 gantries and GSE.
Last edited by Sunfish; 10th Jun 2012 at 07:46.