Market powers?

Australian airports under the spotlight

When former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon retired in 2008 he told Australian Aviation that in the long term the privatisation of airports in Australia would be judged a failure.

That sentiment found support from one of Dixon’s fiercest critics, the Australia Council of Trade Unions, which in its submission to the government’s White Paper claimed that the privatisation of Australia’s airports “failed to deliver a higher level of capital investment in aeronautical services and infrastructure; failed to increase traffic diversity from domestic or international destinations; and, failed to improve socioeconomic gains to regional and remote areas.”