Originally Posted by
Berealgetreal
Why is it these days we can on most occasions get in and out of SYD (as big as it is) without feeder fix or holding carry on but MEL is every single arrival. Flying all over the country it stands out to me that MEL has something different. Even when there's hardly anyone flying you get a fix time which is then changed to cancel speed etc.
SYD and BNE copped it for years and the act got cleaned up well and truly.
They do have parallel runways in SY.... Last year SY had 332,000 fixed wing movements and ML had 238,000 - so SY has only 1.4 times the traffic. Call it 1.5 due to no curfew at ML.
As to the delays, umm what do you think the "turn right heading 140" for 10 minutes at 250kts is achieving?