Next time you are using Melbourne’s main airport at Tullamarine take a closer look at Essendon Airport which is about seven kilometres down the freeway while heading into the city. It’s the airport where the planes leave on time, writes Ben Sandilands.
Airports
Amending the airports so developers can’t steal them
The Airports Amendment Bill 2010 introduced this morning will try to stop developers ‘stealing’ them for housing estates, shopping malls and nursing homes. Is it a brave bill, or is it too late, or critically flawed?
The link between airports and herpes
The travel bug is kind of like the herpes virus. And there’s just something about being surrounded by travellers at the airport that seems to bring on the worst cold sores, writes Matt de Neef.
Marieke Hardy: Lying idle in Iceland
Marieke Hardy innocently headed off to a wedding in Iceland, unaware she was going to land smack bang in the middle of a major natural disaster. So what to do now? Wait, drink whiskey, call the airport again…
Does Australia need pay-per-use airport lounges?
Jetstar announced a new pay-per-use lounge at Auckland Airport last week, and the concept is already very popular overseas. So why aren’t there more of them in this country? asks Ben Sandilands.
Sydney airport at Richmond? So funny it might not be serious
The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia has to be kidding if it really, truly, wants the Federal Government to build a second Sydney airport at the RAAF base at Richmond.
