Yes... Brisbane and Cooly do have a rather symbiotic relationship. Not very often that you can't land at either... though that's the point of an alternate I suppose.
Still, an ILS on 14 would reduce the need for diversions in conditions that would be routine landings elsewhere. I was annoyed to read the propaganda that the ILS would end up being used all the time, as if the 90% of flights arriving from the South have nothing better to do with their fuel than burn it. What's a dozen or two track miles between friends?
The punters end up paying for it one way or the other. At least if the weather is rainy and the flight is diverted the pax get to disembark through an airbridge
