Suggested Docklands airport for Melbourne

[JessicaTam]

"An airport for Melbourne's Dockland's precinct has been proposed by a parliamentary committee after a taxpayer-funded overseas summer jaunt."

Herald Sun

 

[MelUser]

A la London City!

 

[samh004]

The parliamentary committee might like to check the populations of either city... while London could be said to be only double Melbourne, depending on how big an area you sample it ranges to about 4x the size. So I doubt such a small population needs a city airport.

Also strange that they'd suggest a city airport for LCC's... I'd just imagine it'd be harder to recoup costs from them, take longer etc...

 

[nlagalle]

The parliamentary committee might like to check the populations of either city... while London could be said to be only double Melbourne, depending on how big an area you sample it ranges to about 4x the size. So I doubt such a small population needs a city airport.

Also strange that they'd suggest a city airport for LCC's... I'd just imagine it'd be harder to recoup costs from them, take longer etc...

London's population is over 8 million. the size of Victoria's population is just over 5. Big difference.

 

[JessicaTam]

And that Essendon airport is closer to Melbourne than LCY is to London.

 

[Boris spatsky]

And that Essendon airport is closer to Melbourne than LCY is to London.

Yep, about 20 mins in a cab in non peak hour. Pretty good really.

 

[Isochronous]

Crazy crazy stuff. They'd be better building an airport out east around Pakenham way, so Avalon covers the west/Geelong and Pakenham/Moorabbin the east.

 

[anat0l]

Dumb idea.

BTW, LCY is hardly a hub for low cost carriers; quite the opposite. They are also at loggerheads with the surrounding communities to expand the airport operations (read: extend quite strict curfew hours).

LCY is a STOLport of which the largest aircraft supported is a A319. Most of the aircraft are turboprops or Embraer e-jets. Can a turboprop or e-jet fly to NZ?

As others have said, the economy of scale just isn't there to justify a city airport. I also picture a Kai Tak like situation, except without the difficult surrounding terrain.

 

[docjames]

Stupidest. Idea. Ever.

 

[JohnK]

An airport near the city?

Isn't that one of the issues with Sydney's airport?

 

[Hvr]

The main reason it would fail is because there is already public transport to Docklands, also there wouldn't be enough room for the car parks to make millions of dollars.

 

[notzac]

We seriously paid politicians to come up with this??

 

[drewbles]

And that Essendon airport is closer to Melbourne than LCY is to London.

Not really.

London to LCY is only 8 miles (12.9km). Melbourne CBD to MEB is 14.5km.

LCY is also serviced by the DLR, which goes from Bank, and has either Heron Quays or Canary Wharf DLR stations connecting straight into the Jubilee line.

Public transport to LCY is dead simple (and cheap) from downtown. It's also stupidly close to Canary Wharf, which is arguably the financial capital of London (if not most of Europe). LCY makes sense on a lot of levels. An airport at the Docklands? Tell 'em they're dreamin'!

 

[JessicaTam]

Not really.

London to LCY is only 8 miles (12.9km). Melbourne CBD to MEB is 14.5km.

LCY is also serviced by the DLR, which goes from Bank, and has either Heron Quays or Canary Wharf DLR stations connecting straight into the Jubilee line.

Public transport to LCY is dead simple (and cheap) from downtown. It's also stupidly close to Canary Wharf, which is arguably the financial capital of London (if not most of Europe). LCY makes sense on a lot of levels. An airport at the Docklands? Tell 'em they're dreamin'!

Sorry for the inaccuracy. I based my comment on the Herald Sun article - more fool me!

Incidentally, there is lots of public derision in the same paper this morning.

 

[drewbles]

Sorry for the inaccuracy. I based my comment on the Herald Sun article - more fool me!

Incidentally, there is lots of public derision in the same paper this morning.

Ahh you trusted the Hun

When in London I stay around Canary Wharf, and have been to LCY a few times. It's not a flash airport, and as others have mentioned it's a STOL airport with very limited capacity. Serves a purpose, but whoever thought an airport at Docklands would be viable has dreams of being London.

May I refer them to this instead: Ciudad Real Central Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Featured in a recent episode of Top Gear.

Admittedly its failure was for a bunch of reasons, but mostly, it was no where useful

 

[browski]

I like the idea.

If we can't take Mohammed to the mountain; let's take the airport to the train station.

 

[docjames]

I like the idea.

If we can't take Mohammed to the mountain; let's take the airport to the train station.

Price comparison would be interesting ($$ to build train to airport vs $$ to build a whole airport).

 

[BAM1748]

Seems more like they need a recommendation to close out the junket funding paperwork.

Wonder where they could go next, Aspen to check out condos with heliports.