MAp concered about carpet not fading evenly at SYD T2

[thewinchester]

QF/Toll: MAp more concered about carpets than customers at SYD

I just knew a post title like that would make you scratch your head, but that's a concern the operators of SYD have raised as to why they won't let JQ install self-check at T2.

It's amongst a laundry list of complaints being raised by both QF and Toll Holdings, asking for increased regulation of airports to stop abuse of monopoly market power:

Qantas, Toll slam sky-high airport prices and urge Canberra to act
Damon Kirney, The Australian, April 25, 2011 12:00AM

TWO of the nation's most powerful transport companies have launched a scathing attack on Australia's airports, calling on the federal government to crack down on their "demonstrably excessive" pricing practices.

Qantas Airways and transport giant Toll Holdings say the light-handed approach to airport regulation currently adopted by the government has failed to curb monopoly pricing and protect airport users from abuses of market power.

The cost of parking a car at airports is cited as just one hot-button consumer issue.
They claim the light-handed approach has not led to acceptable improvements in service levels to airport users.

But let's talk about the important issues, unevenly fading carpet:

Jetstar recently clashed with the airport over plans to install self-service equipment in domestic terminals to help passengers use SMS technology for check-in.

It claimed the airport identified a number of trivial issues not raised by any other airport in negotiations, including the potential fading of carpet at a different rate due to the equipment blocking sunlight.

Seriously MAp! Are you that obstructionist you'll complain about fading carpet to prevent an airline delivering a better pax expeirence? Of course you will, because we can't have them sitting in the terminal for longer admiring just how much you've let the place go to hell.

The calls by Qantas and Toll have been backed by the powerful Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA), which represents most of the international airline carriers using Australian airports.

...BARA goes further, demanding a detailed investigation by the competition regulator into the practices of Sydney airport, which is majority-owned by the listed company MAp Airports.

"BARA believes that SACL has probably progressed to a point where only the imposition of stricter economic regulation is likely to be able to correct its long-term commercial conduct," the group says in a new submission to the Productivity Commission.

 

[TheInsider]

Can't see anything happening. Nothing ever seems to happen anymore!

 

[cove]

After they have finished worrying about uneven fading of the carpet they might want to get a plumber to work on the toilets in each terminal.
I am a bit embarassed to admit I am a unit holder in MAp.

 

[pshepvic]

It sounds like one of Queensland's excuses for not having daylight saving.

Next they'll say that check in kiosks will confuse the cows and increase skin cancer rates.

 

[drron]

It sounds like one of Queensland's excuses for not having daylight saving.

Next they'll say that check in kiosks will confuse the cows and increase skin cancer rates.

Yes we told them what would happen.Nobody listens.:shock:

 

[yo yo ma]

I am a bit embarassed to admit I am a unit holder in MAp.

Me too... though on the positive side they do pay good dividends

 

[FuzzyAUS]

I sold my MAP holdings last week for a nice profit, will buy back in again in a few weeks/months when the price softens again.

But yes, they do have a nice Dividend Yield

 

[ethernet]

I totally agree some severe intervention is required. The regulators don't understand compounding changes, and 'light handed' .

Sydney Airport then and Now. A few metrics may help for a fair 'test' of abuse.
A random Background Link: http://www.icao.int/icao/en/atb/epm/CaseStudy_Australia.pdf
The stated rationale was to “improve the efficiency of airport investment and operations in the interests of users and the general community, and to facilitate innovative management”

1) The cost ranking of Sydney Airport has gone from nn to perhaps one of the top ten most expensive in the world.
2) Airport International Ranking. Quality wise as measured by users, Syd Airport's reputaion has gone DOWN.
3) Metrics and reliability - down the toilet. Wait - check-in times -up
4) The financial gearing of the Airport if anything has gone up. MAp has sucked all the profits and revenue out. Nothing innovative about maximal tax deductions and padded management fees.
5) Fails the test " in the interests of users and the general community"
6) Excessive Airport rail link fares - but the suffrage continues.
7) There are others

Investment in Sydney Airport? I think not. It is a cash cow operation geared to the hilt at taxpayer expense. There is no pride in the total outcome and user experience. Its not an international airport / showpiece of excellence. We know what 'good' is, but its not Sydney Airport.

Time someone takes a stick to them.

 

[simongr]

What is so bad about Sydney International airport itself? I am generally through from the kerb to the lounge in about 10 - 15 minutes. The shopping experience is ok and less obtrusive than some airports I have travelled through.

I understand that the transit experience is not great - but I have not had to do that. Bags can be hit and miss as at any other airport that I have visited (except for SIN, NRT and HKG).

For me SYD is not really that bad.

 

[medhead]

It sounds like one of Queensland's excuses for not having daylight saving.

Next they'll say that check in kiosks will confuse the cows and increase skin cancer rates.

Actually, those were the reasons of the mad peanut farmer (aka Joh). As a queenslander with time in FNQ and now a resident of south australia. I'll tell you that Queensland has enough sunlight and there is no need to save it. Whereas south australia and the south in general does benefit from DLS.

Oh on the cancer thing, I think you'll find that is a valid reason. The amount of UV changes during the day. By changing the time you move the period of peak UV to later in the day. Hence there are higher UV levels when kids (high sensitivity to UV) are getting out of school, than there would be without daylight savings.

Simply put with the daylight being in the morning people are more likely to be asleep or inside. In the afternoon they are more likely to be outside, under daylight savings there is more UV at this time. Daylight savings also encourages people to use the daylight more = higher UV exposure.

I sold my MAP units because they complicated my tax

 

[pshepvic]

Actually, those were the reasons of the mad peanut farmer (aka Joh). As a queenslander with time in FNQ and now a resident of south australia. I'll tell you that Queensland has enough sunlight and there is no need to save it. Whereas south australia and the south in general does benefit from DLS.

Oh on the cancer thing, I think you'll find that is a valid reason. The amount of UV changes during the day. By changing the time you move the period of peak UV to later in the day. Hence there are higher UV levels when kids (high sensitivity to UV) are getting out of school, than there would be without daylight savings.

Simply put with the daylight being in the morning people are more likely to be asleep or inside. In the afternoon they are more likely to be outside, under daylight savings there is more UV at this time. Daylight savings also encourages people to use the daylight more = higher UV exposure.

I sold my MAP units because they complicated my tax

This is now a little o/t, but I still haven't seen any real evidence to prove that daylight saving increases skin cancer. The southern states have lower rates of skin cancer than Qld, so you could argue that daylight saving reduces it. Kids are more likely to put sunscreen on if their parents are there to tell them to after school, I know I'd rely on that to happen more than relying on the schools to get them to do so.

My view though is to move the entire east coast half an hour forward, and leave it there all year round, (ie. make the east coast GMT +10.5 hours) and stop with all the stuffing around and ridiculousness of having so many different time zones.