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Parramatta Stadium Rebuild and other stuff

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Why the f**k would anyone want to land in Sydney/Parramatta between 11pm and 6am anyway?

Give me sitting around around Changi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Narita/Japan, even Abu Dhabi/Doha or LA airports to wait for a reasonable arrival time back in Australia any day of the week.
 

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Most airports around the world are 25-30 mins drive away from the city centre on the outskirts.

Sydney is one of the rare ones basically 5-10 mins away from the city centre.
Yeah but WSIA will be 90 mins on a average traffic day ?
 

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Yes they were. I’d suggest you watch this. Gives plenty of perspective and the power of the media and politics in enflaming a situation.


Alan Jones is total piece of shit.

 
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Yes they were. I’d suggest you watch this. Gives plenty of perspective and the power of the media and politics in enflaming a situation.

Thanks. I'm pretty familiar with the putrid goings on about those sad times.

Made me shameful to be associated with those fellow "Aussies".
 

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Why the f**k would anyone want to land in Sydney/Parramatta between 11pm and 6am anyway?

Give me sitting around around Changi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Narita/Japan, even Abu Dhabi/Doha or LA airports to wait for a reasonable arrival time back in Australia any day of the week.
Maybe to come home?
I have sat around KL airport after finishing work (checked out in the morning) with a week's worth of luggage, until late on a Friday night, only to arrive back in Sydney at 8am on a Saturday morning. I don't think this flight exists anymore but back in the day it was shit - and I did it about 20 times in one year.
 
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Maybe to come home?
At 2am-3am in the morning Aus time...?
I have sat around KL airport after finishing work (checked out in the morning) with a week's worth of luggage, until late on a Friday night, only to arrive back in Sydney at 8am on a Saturday morning. I don't think this flight exists anymore but back in the day it was shit - and I did it about 20 times in one year.
That does sound shit.

Could you not have checked out on the morning of your last day of work, taken the luggage with you to work on the Thursday, and then from there to the airport to catch the late night flight (Thursday night) the night before for a Friday morning homecoming?
 
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I'm not sure I can find a vomit emoji appropriately befitting that development...

Sick Vomit GIF by CBS


I guess they'd all be awake at all hours anyway being so close to the landings and take-offs at the no-curfew airport, so getting home at that ungodly hour is no different to a normal night of no sleep for residents of that... place.
 
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Not from the 4 million people that don't live in the Eastern Suburbs.
Well the context was the graveyard shift of the runway and who would use it.

Do you think that many international visitors will be spending all their holiday within 25 mins of Badgery's Creek ?
 

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Well the context was the graveyard shift of the runway and who would use it.

Do you think that many international visitors will be spending all their holiday within 25 mins of Badgery's Creek ?
I don't know what international visitors will do or where they will go.

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Well the context was the graveyard shift of the runway and who would use it.

Do you think that many international visitors will be spending all their holiday within 25 mins of Badgery's Creek ?

Who said that?
Maybe those "international travellers" you speak of are actually western Sydney residents? We go overseas as well, in case you don't know.
There may well be plenty in western Sydney that don't care what time a flight arrives, particularly if it is a cheaper flight.
It's quite obvious that most of the overnight arrivals will initially be an advantage to the freight industry which cannot do that now at KSIA, and never will.
However, it is not unusual the world over for flights to arrive at all hours of the day or night at curfew free airports.
This is the advantage that WSIinternationalA will have over KS.
This isn't an Avalon or Gold Coast or Rockhampton. It's a full International airport with supporting road and rail infrastructure.
Anyway, never mind. A $50 dollar Uber or a short public transport trip will get you to "your" airport.
Those of us out west will finally have the same privilege.
 

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Who said that?
Maybe those "international travellers" you speak of are actually western Sydney residents? We go overseas as well, in case you don't know.
There may well be plenty in western Sydney that don't care what time a flight arrives, particularly if it is a cheaper flight.
It's quite obvious that most of the overnight arrivals will initially be an advantage to the freight industry which cannot do that now at KSIA, and never will.
However, it is not unusual the world over for flights to arrive at all hours of the day or night at curfew free airports.
This is the advantage that WSIinternationalA will have over KS.
This isn't an Avalon or Gold Coast or Rockhampton. It's a full International airport with supporting road and rail infrastructure.
Anyway, never mind. A $50 dollar Uber or a short public transport trip will get you to "your" airport.
Those of us out west will finally have the same privilege.

The Airport was approved to a) service the growing population of Western Sydney and b) deal with the limitations that the current airport presents 2027+.

Again, what they should be doing is providing fast dedicated trains to all hubs.

Makes sense to me, we are building a metro out there.

 

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