Hilarious
You guys make me laugh. The Pprune armchair experts at it again! Those Wagner guys are serious, and do things well. They are hard nosed businessmen with a track record to dream of. Watch this project go. They are being totally realistic and have such clear visions of the future that they need to be supported not condemned. And they have one thing in mind; they want their hometown to grow. Grow it will. That little goat track in the middle of Toowoomba can't support much. An appropriately sized airport, in a good location with a business park is genius. Even Guido Zuccoli saw the writing on the wall for Toowoomba when he built his oversized hangar 20 years ago. He is on record as saying that the current airport will go and there'll be one out around Wellcamp one day. His hangar was built to be an industrial shed when the airport turned into a business park.
You guys think John thought this up last year? No way, they've been talking about this, asking people who know and more importantly putting their money where their mouth is and buying up land in the target location. This has been on the Wagner radar for decades. This Pprune thread makes us pilots look like the naive people we are. The Wagners are business people, and pilots, that's why they are creating the future. (BTW, John held his own as a pilot of the Falcon when they had it! For a private pilot he was good, probably still is).
As for Alan Jones' comments, phht. Yawn.
As this thread shows, the old Tall Poppy Syndrome is alive and well. The facts of Wellcamp is that the airport is on their land, the runway is being built from rock from their quarry and they are funding it with their money etc etc. If it fails, it's their loss, not yours. The points regarding Oakey's airspace are invalid. There's this thing called 'negotiation' that happens that creates things like deals and agreements. Maybe you heard about it in your CRM? There are very significant hurdles in this project, but one by one they are being overcome.
All the best to them! Watch the aircraft land in about a year!