New Hobart International Runway
 

In downtown Hobart for a few days and we have been bombarded on commercial radio, with advertising about the need for a new international runway at Hobart.

Do they plan to extend out into the bay to the south, or cross the highway or planning a new runway?

Might be planning direct flights to Ukraine?

How about more repat flights?

What’s with all these councils and local governments giving us modelling about pipe dream passenger direct flights to Asia, Europe and America. Lunacy.

While your wasting our taxpayer dollars, do me just one thing and build bloody taxiways to each end. Should be a minimum for a capital city airport. Numerous third world airports I’ve flown about in Asia are better laid out.

What is an international runway?
Does it have a second passport or some sort of outrageous French accent?

2727 meters x 45 metres seems pretty good for the South Island.

The dopey Maroochy council only made them to halfway down, so there is a long wait at the holding point in the 737 while Grandpa makes a slow approach in his Cessna and has to add power to get past the holding point to allow the 737 to enter and backtrack. Total waste of time and taxpayer money by not taking it to the full length.

They only extended it a few years ago… so they could do more international flights!

https://development.hobartairport.co...nway-extension

The runway is long enough. How about building an aerobridge or two? Passengers are left to walk in the open across the pavement in cold weather and rain half the year because the airport is to cheap to actually build a real terminal. Why the OH&S folks haven't started a campaign on this yet is beyond me.

OH&S for passenger's doesn't exist. a string of flags and underpaid lady in heels is all that stops a person from running towards a live aircraft. don't get me started on allowing young kids and infants to board via rear entry without hearing protection.

Phase 1 has been completed lengthening the runway to 2727m and this is Phase 2 strengthening the old section and taxiways to accommodate Code E aircraft as well as a parking apron for Antarctic gateway flights

Its not just Hobart that treat passengers as sheep going into the shearing shed. OOL,MCY, PPP and the truly awful T4 at Melbourne. Pax complain but they will still buy the ticket so the airlines and the airports don't care.

An interesting story about air bridges (Aerobridge, Jetway etc) from a “developing country”. When the new KLIA 2 terminal was being built in Sepang, the CAAM was forcing AirAsia to use air bridges due to safety concerns. At the old LCC terminal AirAsia always boarded with roll up stairs, it was quicker and cheaper said Tony Fernandez, a man used to getting his own way. The argument went on for quite a while but the CAAM won and when operations started at KLIA2 all carriers had to use the aero bridges. Fernandez complained about slowing down the quick turn around needed for a LCC and also the cost.
Meanwhile here we are in Oz thinking it is okay to use roll up stairs and operate one hundred seat jets on regular FIFO services to airports with zero fire and rescue. Let’s see how that plays out when there is an accident. But I digress.

https://themalaysianreserve.com/2017...e-aerobridges/

https://www.klia2.info/news/2011/air...sabled-groups/

The airlines only care when people start challenging these at risk procedures which results in inflated costs. I remember Jetstar having a sook when Dick was pushing for more tower hours and so on at Avalon. Jetstar then claimed its operation was unviable down there. Great to see Safety is first. Trading safety for saving dollars only goes so far. As we see with Byron, the clock is ticking.