"Passenger Numbers at Sydney Airport to Treble in Next 20 Years"

Friday, August 1, 2003

PASSENGER NUMBERS AT SYDNEY AIRPORT TO TREBLE IN NEXT 20 YEARS
Asia Pulse


SYDNEY, Asia Pulse - Passenger numbers at Sydney Airport would triple in the
next 20 years but there would be no new runways or changes to flight paths
under planned expansion, airport executives said today.

Sydney Airport Corporation Limited (SACL) today released for public comment
a draft master plan for the next 20 years of development at the airport.

The draft plan forecast a tripling of passenger numbers to 68.3 million by
2023/24, when there would be around 412,000 aircraft movements each year.

SACL chief executive Max Moore-Wilton said the airport had the capacity and
infrastructure planning to cope with projected growth in Sydney's domestic
and international passenger traffic for the forseeable future.

"Our planning is predicated on incremental growth of both passengers and
aircraft movements over time," he said.

The airport's capacity to handle increased traffic has been under discussion
this week, after Federal Opposition Leader Simon Crean announced that a
Labor government would scrap plans to build a second airport for Sydney at
Badgerys Creek.

Mr Moore-Wilton said the domestic and international passenger terminals
would be extended and air freight facilities relocated to land north of the
airport.

He said there would be no changes to the curfew and no change to the
movements cap as expansion got underway.


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