It does make one wonder who is the one more concerned about this law - the airport or the airlines? It would be an interesting look for the airlines to push for an extension of the law, as then any argument for wanting and using the new airport falls over.
Sydney airport and the airlines will be the ones wanting the law changed (ie to allow continuation of the curfew-breaking).
Hopefully they haven't based the fire suppression systems on the original Berlin ones.
No, but the “digital” unmanned ATC tower could be the long pole in the tent…
Yes. SQ and JQ so far but freight will be there on day 1!
TBH, I don’t understand the “delay” (as mentioned a while ago). The physical works are basically complete. Yes, certification takes time but still saying opening in ~2yrs. What the actual…is going on?
Airport commissioning is very very complex, and budle that with all the regulatory requirements. Honestly ine year from end of physical works seems quick if anything.
That is the current plan
External works (IE. Waterproof or lockup stage in a house build are complete). Still a lot of internal work to go.
Most of that is done. Many of news reports of updates on progress say things like “it looks like passengers could arrive tomorrow”.
Yes, discussed previously. 2 yrs is still a long time. Unless the freight ops start sooner?
Access roads are built (needed for construction). They’ll tart them up and other roads to improve access in due course.
But even that has been quoted as ~2yrs post those first test flights back in October.
In terms of taking off and landing any aircraft, I doubt there's much difference in the commissioning of freight vs passenger flights. I assume the passenger terminal and associated systems must be a little more complicated than freight operations.
There's a whole new 15km Motorway (M12 non-tolled) being built between the M7 and Northern Rd (roughly paralleling Elizabeth Rd) that will be the primary access to the airport.
There's probably testing for just about everything and there's only so many tests you can do a day- evacuation drills, fire drills, incident response drills with various outside services, IT testing, baggage system testing etc.
Depends on how state of the art freight system they want to build. If they want a highly automated freight system that is probably more complex than PAX systems as ultimately we as humans are a lot more adaptable than machines.
Will be absolute state of the art.
