The ‘long walk’ at Melbourne Airport - Pickup/Dropoff

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I suspect they chose not to do it because it won't be this long of a walk in 4 years time and they'd need to rip it out in 2030 or so.

I think everyone is forgetting that the new check in / arrivals hall door in 2031 will be pushed way out close to the old pick up and drop off lanes. This will be a lot shorter of a walk to check in hall.

The walk to the check in area really isn't very far, the hyperbole related to the distance to the furthest departure gate is somewhat obscuring the reality. However, AKL has the "add on" travellators that sit on top of the ground to and from the farther gate areas - that's something MEL could have included to get people across the foot bridges without walking, or maybe a gondola?

 

[Bundy Bear]

Will be good for the Qantas wellbeing app

 

[mel-world]

This new system will fix the issue of traffic and/or pax being delayed due to the pedestrian crossings that existed on both levels outside T1 and T3. At lease pax do not intermingle with traffic on these levels anymore. Maybe they still do on the L2 and L3 drop off and pick up zones but yet to experience that layout.

With UBER still keeping its existing PU zones right outside the terminals, I guess there is even more incentive to use them rather than Didi where, I guess, you have to find your car in the P/UP zone - or is there still an area in the old P/UP area on the ground level for other ride share pickups as well as off airport parking and hotel vans?