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New KSA Group Lobby For Second Runway
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Kingsford Smith Makes A Fighting Comeback On The Third Runway Issue
Kingsford Smith is fighting back, not the legendary aviator, but rather his embattled namesake representing Australia’s premier international airport.
Many individuals and organisations have fought for major improvements at KSA over the years and few in allh6nesty have really been effective in real terms. More recently though a new group, chaired by Mr David Abba, Sydney’s highly respected and entrepreneurial chief executive of the powerful Sydney Chamber of Commerce, have launched a concerted and professional campaign to ensure that Sydney remains as Australia’s primary international trading gateway in the decades ahead. The new group, entitled the Kingsford Smith Airport Task Force, combines the strongest of the trade organisations involved in tourism, transport and travel in NSW and essentially represents a far more unified approach to achieving change at Mascot than any previous lobby.
The Task Force makes some salient points KSA carries more of our nation’s air traffic than all other Australian international gateways combined. That KSA receives almost two out of three tourists visiting Australia and handles more than half our airfreight. That airport related industries and businesses annually spend more than $730m and provide direct employment for 14,000 people in the aviation industry while a further 14,700 jobs exist in aviation-dependent industries such as tourism, accommodation and travel. What concerns the Task Force is that airport traffic is growing at a faster rate at Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Cairns and Adelaide while ever-worsening congestion at KSA is making operators look to alternative gateways in preference to Sydney airport. In short the Task Force believes that KSA is in a state of crisis and will only deteriorate further if a third runway is not approved for construction in the near future. While Badgerys Creek will eventually assist KSA, the Task Force estimates that this facility won’t be fully operational for at least another three decades
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