2nd Syd Airport ...No curfew

Round-the-clock flights at Badgerys Creek cleared for takeoff by Deputy PM Warren Truss

• ANDREW CLENNELL STATE POLITICAL EDITOR
• THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
• MAY 01, 2015 4:01PM

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Monster airport?




THE efforts of a tiny minority to impose a curfew on Sydney’s second airport at Badgerys Creek were dealt another blow yesterday when Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss rejected the idea.
“We have no plans to place a curfew on Western Sydney Airport. It needs to be economically strong, it needs to provide the maximum possible service to the people of Western Sydney and Sydney in general,” Mr Truss said.
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He made the comments at a NSW Business Chamber forum on the airport at the University of Western Sydney after Jetstar chief executive David Hall asked the government not to “cruel the airport” by imposing a Kingsford Smith-style curfew.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the new airport needs to be economically strong.

“The other large airports in Australia apart from Kingsford Smith Airport do not have a curfew,” he said.
“Many of them are quite close to urban areas. A lot of international flights arrive in Australia at a time Sydney is closed for business.
Mr Truss said flights would leave Badgerys for the Middle East about 3am.
“There is some attraction to flights leaving around two or three in the morning to go to places like Abu Dhabi and Dubai because it suits the schedule in other parts of the world,” he said.
“If there are freight movements, they’ll need a schedule and that’s sometimes best in the middle of the night.

Jetstar CEO David Hall delivers a message at the Western Sydney Airport Conference.

“Aircraft these days are much quieter and we certainly won’t allow noisy aircraft when it comes to Badgerys.”
Mr Truss said Badgerys Creek would be a “modest” airport at first, with one runway, before building up to being a major international airport over the decades.
“After 40 years, it could be handling up to 80 million passengers,” he said.
By comparison, Sydney Airport handled 40 million passengers last year.
Mr Truss said construction would begin next year and be finished in the mid-2020s.

Western Sydney Airport Conference convener David Borger yesterday.

Mr Truss’s comments came after Jetstar’s Mr Hill told the conference: “It is essential that we do not cruel this airport with curfews or any other artificial constraint on its capacity”.
“Curfew-free status will enable us to maximise the new airport’s productivity, and give it a point of difference from Mascot,” he said.

At the symposium yesterday, several experts said the airport could only grow to a large size, and be a proper success, with a high speed rail link. Transport minister Andrew Constance said yesterday he would bring in industry leaders and bureaucrats to discuss the possibility.