Perth Airport faces several challenges due to unprecedented growth in air traffic. These include operating effectively as a single runway airport, handling peak demand periods in the early morning with 80 departures and 10 arrivals within 90 minutes, and accommodating a wide variety of aircraft sizes on its runways. The document discusses the airport's history and the boom in air traffic in recent decades, which is projected to exceed the airport's runway capacity by 2019 if growth continues at 5% annually. Potential solutions discussed include building a second runway, restricting certain noisy flights, and measures to reduce aircraft noise affecting nearby communities.

1. Perth Airport – Community and Industry - is it prepared ? Engineers Australia May 24, 2011 Photo: Merv Prime

2. Challenges High turnover of airlines Peak demand Effectively a single runway operation Challenges aloft Wide variety of aircraft sizes Length of many destination runways Unprecedented growth Noise

3. But first let’s go down memory lane… Picture: Betty Foster

10. By the early 70s…. MMA had five 55-seat F-28 Fellowships jets to cater for the “boom.” Supported by a few F-27 Friendships and the Occasional DC-3 to airlift supplies during the cyclone season

12. TAA was allowed a Perth-Pt Hedland-Darwin service in the late 80s.

13. East West dabbled before being purchased by Ansett

14. Early 1980s

15. Early 2000

17. Those challenges again… High turnover of airlines Peak demand Challenges aloft Effectively a single runway operation Wide variety of aircraft sizes Length of many destination runways Unprecedented growth Noise

18. Intense competition has taken its toll… Between 1960 and 2010 - 46 scheduled airlines have entered bankruptcy or merged in WA! Ansett, itself a victim of competition, was made up of 78 airlines that it had absorbed Recent casualties include Impulse, Ozjet, and Sky Air World, while Qantas has purchased Network to launch its FIFO ambitions

19. Peak demand…

20. Mid week from 5.10am to 7.30am typically there will be… 80 departures 10 arrivals 30 aircraft tows So let’s take a fly around the airport to see what that means…

21. Photo: Sandie Bertrand, The West Australian - Copyright

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35. Photo: Sandie Bertrand, The West Australian - Copyright And on the ground it gets hectic….

36. 45 Tonnes of express cargo arrives before 4am - 50% for transshipment

37. Photo: Sandie Bertrand, The West Australian - Copyright

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43. Photo: Sandie Bertrand, The West Australian - Copyright

48. And not just in the early morning…

50. And the domestic 747s are returning…

51. Challenges aloft

53. Between 2006 and 2008 airspace issues were addressed under WARRP

54. Photo: Sandie Bertrand, The West Australian - Copyright

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59. 5.15am - April 27

60. 5.30am – April 27

61. 5.45am – April 27

62. 6.00am – April 27

63. 6.15am – April 27

64. 6.30am – April 27

65. 6.45am – April 27

66. 7.00am – April 27

67. 7.30am – April 27

68. 7.45am – April 27

69. And if you think the problem will fly away…

70. The AM FIFO flights are on their way back…

71. 9.22am – April 27 Inbound only

72. 9.38am – April 27 Inbound only

73. 10.02am – April 27 Inbound only

74. 10.22am – April 27 Inbound only

75. 10.43am – April 27 Inbound only

76. 11.09am – April 27 Inbound only

77. Effectively a single runway airport

79. Variety of aircraft sizes Credit: Neville Murphy

80. At one extreme A380s are coming…

81. At the other light aircraft are taking up valuable take-off slots

82. So what is the trend? Perth Airport - 1985

83. 1995

84. 2005

85. Air travel growth has been met by increased frequencies and nonstops World Index 1990=1.00 2.5 Air Travel Growth Frequency Growth Nonstop Markets 2.0 1.5 Average Airplane Size 1.0 0.5 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 August OAG All routes

88. Will airlines go for larger aircraft in Perth?

89. While there has been some significant changes….that is stabilizing Network is buying 10 more 100-seat Fokker 100s Skywest 2 more Fokker 100s and one more 180-seat A320 Jetstar is focused on the A320 for domestic ops Virgin and Qantas building fleets around the 180-seat 737NG for regional ops

90. Because the problem is… Most regional and remote airports can’t handle larger aircraft Only about 12 airports in WA are 737/A320 capable Cost to upgrade 80 candidate airports would run into 10s of billions of dollars Only one “FIFO only” airport -Cloud Break- can handle A320/737 equipment

93. Perth Airport – Flights Growth Perth Airport exceeded its 2013 movement forecast in 2010

94. At current growth of 5% Perth Airport will be at weekday runway capacity – all day - by 2019 – not 2029

95. Australian Airport – Fleet Mix2010 Perth Airport’s fleet mix issues are no worse than other Australian airports

96. Challenges & Questions

97. Do we build a second runway for 2015, which is the earliest date? Who pays the $900 million bill – the resource industry? Who compensates Perth Airport for loss of revenue from lost land leases? Other options – Jandakot or greenfields site?

99. What happens to the critical $750 million road works required for the airport’s ultimate development? Should we push for partial development? Or funded through toll?

105. Noise No curfew – we can’t have one!! Sydney and Adelaide have curfews - why can’t we? Aircraft getting quieter But more frequency of aircraft Population far more sensitive

108. But we can make a difference! Ban night cargo flight transit stops Ban early morning cargo take-offs -747 horse flights Full length runway take-offs Max power take-offs at noise sensitive times Off-set by insulation for some homes Landfill sand barriers to deaden noise Ban building of homes close to airport

111. Housing developments continue to ring Perth Airport

114. Thank you – Questions?