Worlds Most Efficent Airports - Names PER!

[sr81]

Found this one quite amazing -

Australian airports fared reasonably well in their categories, with Sydney's airport named the second most efficient in the region after Hong Kong for airports handling more than 15 million passengers per year. Perth was named second most efficient airport in the region for airports with under 15 million passengers, behind Seoul-Gimpo.

Source: World's most efficient airports named

B**ching about PER is nothing new around here but the second most efficient? Maybe they only looked at the international terminal?

 

[SeaWolf]

And to go with this:
Doug Lansky: The 10 Most Hated Airports In The World (PHOTOS, POLL)
Also names Sydney.

 

[anat0l]

I'm having a hard enough time trying to understand the measurement methodology.

I'm also calling BS on this one.

If I've read the 'slides' correctly, they mention that the quality of service from these airports is not accounted for. Efficiency seems to be measured mostly from an almost total economic point of view.

This could mean if I charge airlines a lot of money to land at my airport and push lots of pax through my meagre, stingy facilities, that would make me an efficient airport!*

Not a good measure by any stretch of the mind! So I hope I'm wrong but still sceptical about how efficiency is measured and why it should be in any way credible.


* Oh wait a minute - I think I've just described SYD! (Or PER...)

 

[harvyk]

I don't think PER was anything special,

but I certainly agree with LAX being amongst the most hated. I normally don't like to get too close to the walls incase I catch something.

 

[markis10]

I would think HTI would be the most efficient airport in Oz, never seem to have runway delays for traffic, bags are delivered quickly and I am in my room within 10 minutes, cannot seem to get that anywhere else .

Having done INT-DOM transfer at PER I can confirm the experience was not what I would have expected from an efficient airport, regardless PER is a long way from SIN in the efficiency stakes.

 

[thewinchester]

I did a quick hunt around the web, and I couldn't find an easy list of Asian airports carrying under 15 million pax p.a. to see who else was in the class of Seoul/Gimpo and Perth and make an easy comparison. Not surprisingly, their list of included airports for each region doesn't allow you to see which category each belongs to for this purpose either.

To use their methodology, SIN is in a different class to PER, with the former having moved 37.2m in full year 2009 and PER moving 7.1m in FY2008/09 (not enough time to extract the PER result for just 2009).

I couldn't agree more with anat0l comments on the methodology after looking at that in their presentation. The efficiency model they use is a pure dollars game, and doesn't seem to factor in pax experience to support results, or see if the financial efficiency they seem to suggest translates into the real world perception.

I can't say I've experienced Seoul/Gimpo, but I'd hazard a guess that its pax experience and feedback puts it country miles ahead of PER or anyone else in their Sub-15 million PAX p.a. category for Asia-Pacific.

 

[StevePER]

I can't say I've experienced Seoul/Gimpo, but I'd hazard a guess that its pax experience and feedback puts it country miles ahead of PER or anyone else in their Sub-15 million PAX p.a. category for Asia-Pacific.

I've been to Gimpo. My main memories are that they took 30 minutes to check us in and it has no baby change facilities (that we could find).

 

[docjames]

I think having SYD as #2 in Asia/Pac is a bigger shock than the PER result! :shock::shock::shock:

 

[dajop]

I think having SYD as #2 in Asia/Pac is a bigger shock than the PER result! :shock::shock::shock:

Not if you think about the $$$$ they rake in .

Interesting thing when you go through some of the results of the survey, I now fully understand why LCC's don't seem to want to touch WLG. Landing charges there seem to rather expensive compared to everywhere else.