Perth! Train. :ok:

Wonder who is paying for the SRL then. No doubt will blow out to over $100b.

A train ride to domestic that has a station no where near the terminal, you know, for the future business park.

The Airport station is right underneath the control tower, centrally located for the future terminal consolidation. The fare is less than 5 bucks.

Redcliffe station is near the Qantas terminal, linked by a 10 minute walk or the use of the carpark bus. That terminal will likely move in due course so why go to the effort of putting an entire train station underneath it?

ExtraShot, read what I wrote. DOMESTIC side.

Iccy, Extrashot is correct. It's not DOMESTIC. You're talking about the current QANTAS terminal. Perth airport should have built the eastern Qantas terminal (and second runway) by now but...

I did read it. As Bloggs has clarified, it is merely the Qantas side.

What is the Airport station is pretty perfectly located for a consolidated terminal. Perth Airport and now the State government no longer want Qantas on the Western side anymore than necessary, so the train station on that side was never intended to facilitate them staying.

I believe the Redcliffe Station master plan is for an area akin to what is like the Mascot precinct in Sydney… commercial, hotels, apartments… eventually (as with everything in WA - Wait Awhile).


With regards to that terminal move, I’ve heard rumors Qantas may be relenting in their tiff with Perth Airport, with a (large) sum being offered up by Qantas if it’s matched by the other parties in various ways and forms. The current digs would be improved to allow Qantas to do a bit more of the international flying it wants to (fixing whatever caused the Joburg flights to cease and Jakarta flights to be still born)while a new terminal extension is built on the Eastern side. I guess we’ll see how that works out.

Quite right. Slip of the keys, by domestic I was showing my age as I still think of the West side as domestic. After Q spent nearly $100milion upgrading their terminal they will not be in a hurry to move.
How is that parallel runway coming along?

Ahhh, the parallel runway… we’ve all seen the drawings… heard how great it will be…

Everyone wants it, no one wants to pay for it, and rest assured the rent-seekers on various sides are busy!

This is Australia though, and it matters who you are mates with, and ultimately it is us the public that will pay for it, and the profits will float magically off into the ether.

The thing that impresses me most about the airport train line in Perth is that it is infrastructure that will be ‘grown into’. In terms of patronage , surrounding development, and future extensions. We’re pretty much always playing catch up with when infrastructure is built in this country, but this seems to be an example of getting ahead of the curve. It happens so rarely.