Profits are fine but without customers ever expanding as well ('cause their not looking after the golden gooses health just catching the eggs for now) then the profits will eventually evaporate from which they first came from, the need to catch a plane in a timely manor!
All fair points but it is about cost shifting. If the privately LEASED not OWNED airports built actual airport infrastructure, you know, runways, taxiways, gates etc then it costs them money and they
may be able to charge a little more. If they don't build them, well the aircraft keep arriving but get tied up in delays, these delays cost the airlines money but very little cost to the airport operator. So there is little incentive to put precious capital into airside works, when car parks nd shopping make a better return.
You cannot blame a fox for eating the chickens if you let him in, a fox is a fox after all.
Some highlights from the last few days in Perth...
Mr Geatches said the two existing runways provided more than enough capacity throughout a 24 hour period, it was just certain times of the day on certain days where there was congestion due to demand from the resources sector and their fly-in fly-out operations.
"There was not one person in this state in 2008 or 2009 saying build a third runway," Mr Geatches said.
"We welcome scrutiny of our operations and we welcome the state government's scrutiny and we understand the role of the state government and the Minister for Transport to make sure that we're doing our job," he said
Perth Airport has also given assurances that shortcomings at its new regional Terminal 2 will be rectified.
Passengers are critical of the terminal's lack of parking, single-lane access, seating capacity and the long walk to planes. "This airport looks to have been designed by someone who doesn't have to use it," one fly-in, fly-out worker said.
Perth Airport had said that discussions with airlines over construction of the runway would start in December and be concluded by this month, with lessees of the land advised to vacate by 2017.
"It is disappointing to hear one of the first milestones for the development of a third runway has been missed, as we had every indication these discussions would be completed by April," Mr Buswell said.
'Please explain' runway delay - The West Australian
Perth Airport | Third Runway | Troy Buswell
If you want to see how it can be done, fly to Kuala Lumpur, KLIA. They are currently building KLIA 2 to replace the existing LCCT (Low cost terminal) which was rush built only a few years ago but the stellar growth of Air Asia means it is at capacity. The new KLIA2 will also be in on the high speed, driverless train line to KL Sentral, 29 minutes away. admittedly the opening has been delayed a few months.
Ultimately Wally one is locked into flying to a particular airport, it is not discretionary and so market forces are heavily distorted. Can I go by high speed train from Melbourne to Brisbane, not in my lifetime. Can I fly to a secondary smaller airport? Perhaps but not yet available.