Growing pains
WA’s state aviation strategy
Perth Airport’s annual passenger growth could quadruple over the next 17 years to 40 million — more than double that estimated by the airport owners, according to a new issues paper that throws into question infrastructure planning assumptions for both terminals and an extra parallel runway to handle demand.
A Western Australian State aviation strategy issues paper just released for comment has warned that “even that figure which represents a growth of 7.70 per cent a year is conservative given over the past five years passenger numbers have soared by 9.2 per cent a year.”
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