mess at SYD today due to winds
London Gatwick is a single runway airport. It can handle 55 movements an hour. Does Sydney achieve anything like that when 25 is in use? I do note however that there were a handful of departures this morning from 34L.
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One QF A380 took off to the North this arvo but that's all I saw that way b/w 1pm and 3.30pm. Some QF Thursday pm SYD-MEL pax now looking at Sat afternoon and Sun morning departures. (this SLF included). Rumour has it that VA is as late as Monday. Most SYD customer service staff seem shattered .... a hard couple of days and not over yet.
London Gatwick is a single runway airport. It can handle 55 movements an hour. Does Sydney achieve anything like that when 25 is in use?
Surely badgerys creek will solve all of these problems...
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Id say we do at least 50 an hour on 25 only which is not bad for no rapid exits.
I saw a 747 land at Albion Park a while back, so we should probably send some internationals there when Sydney gets too busy. I’m sure someone from Port Kembla could drive over and deal with customs and quarantine, and the HARS people could lend their stairs and help with the bags. Why aren’t we doing this already?
Comparing LGW and SYD is rather unfair as LGW has RET and terminals away from the runway and LGW have a more routine and regular flow of traffic. That is, LGW regularly do 55 per hour whereas SYD typically will do up to 45 arrivals on 34 parallels leading into a single runway, so there are a backlog of DEP (the arrivals that have already landed). SYD starts behind the 8-ball and then struggles through. Simple maths really.
My 'nearest and dearest' gets back this afternoon having been cancelled four times over four days, all on a full-fare ticket. (I am currently tidying up the house). No fault of the Airline but proof if any is needed that SYD is 'broken'.
Badgerys Creek needs to have two parallel Runways North and South and two Runways East and West. All need to be at least 10,000ft long with high speed exits., All Runways should then have have Cat3 ILS and a five mile exclusion zone free of development and no curfew. I have a feeling all we will achieve is moving the current problem further West as the whole Country is 'broken'. India has better Airports than we do.
Badgerys Creek needs to have two parallel Runways North and South and two Runways East and West. All need to be at least 10,000ft long with high speed exits., All Runways should then have have Cat3 ILS and a five mile exclusion zone free of development and no curfew. I have a feeling all we will achieve is moving the current problem further West as the whole Country is 'broken'. India has better Airports than we do.
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My 'nearest and dearest' gets back this afternoon having been cancelled four times over four days, all on a full-fare ticket. (I am currently tidying up the house). No fault of the Airline but proof if any is needed that SYD is 'broken'.
Badgerys Creek needs to have two parallel Runways North and South and two Runways East and West. All need to be at least 10,000ft long with high speed exits., All Runways should then have have Cat3 ILS and a five mile exclusion zone free of development and no curfew. I have a feeling all we will achieve is moving the current problem further West as the whole Country is 'broken'. India has better Airports than we do.
Badgerys Creek needs to have two parallel Runways North and South and two Runways East and West. All need to be at least 10,000ft long with high speed exits., All Runways should then have have Cat3 ILS and a five mile exclusion zone free of development and no curfew. I have a feeling all we will achieve is moving the current problem further West as the whole Country is 'broken'. India has better Airports than we do.
Auckland Airport is a great example at playing catch-up therefore they never will unless they meet a traffic slowdown whilst they are frantically building for traffic that they perceive is increasing.
With regard to single runway operation I have just retired from 7 years in a reservations unit and I've never seen so much RWY 25 usage as there has been recently. I admit that I was tempted once to tell a caller that was complaining about the mess that it was Aussie shortsightedness that is causing the disruption.
One wonders if the increase in strong westerlies is part of strange trends in worldwide weather - I hesitate to call it climate change.
If he is referring to crosswind limit it is actually ATC limiting the runways not pilots. 10 years ago if you had a 30+ knot westerly you could tell ATC you could accept 34/16 for arrival and they would slot people in and it increased the flow. Then someone in Airservices decided to stop the practice and forced everyone onto 25 eventhough people were requesting 34/16 and happy to take the crosswind. An explanation was given on PPrune at some stage but I dont recall what it was.
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Speaking from the East Island I'd say it isn't just Sydney or Australia, although you guys seem to do it better than most. I'd say it is an Antipodean disease that means we can't think ahead and we tend to plan for what is now, not what is to come.
Auckland Airport is a great example at playing catch-up therefore they never will unless they meet a traffic slowdown whilst they are frantically building for traffic that they perceive is increasing.
With regard to single runway operation I have just retired from 7 years in a reservations unit and I've never seen so much RWY 25 usage as there has been recently. I admit that I was tempted once to tell a caller that was complaining about the mess that it was Aussie shortsightedness that is causing the disruption.
One wonders if the increase in strong westerlies is part of strange trends in worldwide weather - I hesitate to call it climate change.
Auckland Airport is a great example at playing catch-up therefore they never will unless they meet a traffic slowdown whilst they are frantically building for traffic that they perceive is increasing.
With regard to single runway operation I have just retired from 7 years in a reservations unit and I've never seen so much RWY 25 usage as there has been recently. I admit that I was tempted once to tell a caller that was complaining about the mess that it was Aussie shortsightedness that is causing the disruption.
One wonders if the increase in strong westerlies is part of strange trends in worldwide weather - I hesitate to call it climate change.
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Sydney Airport is a piece of cr#p. Thats all you need to know. Fifty years of political incompetence and corruption,bureaucratic stupidity and short-sightedness. A national embarrassment . And its not getting better anytime soon. Days like the other day make me thank the deities that I am close to retirement. A disgrace.
we tend to plan for what is now, not what is to come.