Stephen Morris is a regular flyer and says aircraft delays at Brisbane Airport are a great waste of resources. Picture: Steve Pohlner / Courier Mail Source: The Courier-Mail
IT'S the aerial waiting game that passengers are taking unofficial bets over.
Businessman Stephen Morris, from Hendra, said most of his flights into Brisbane in recent months had been forced to circle the sky as they awaited a landing slot.
"Usually it is around the Gold Coast when the pilot announces the plane is going into a holding pattern," he said.
"We (passengers) then start taking bets on how long it will be."
Mr Morris warned that business travellers who returned from trips to Melbourne and Sydney "have no nice words to say about (landing in) Brisbane".
The new runway at Brisbane Airport would ease the flight delays that have plagued the airport in recent months. Picture: The Courier Mail
Mr Morris, who regularly flies twice a week, said the problem had reached such a level that he wrote a letter to the CEO and managing director of the Brisbane Airport Corporation, Julieanne Alroe, to make her understand his frustration.
"It is socially disruptive, a huge waste of resources, and has become a reputation issue for Brisbane," he said.
More than 2.5 million passengers have been caught up in flight delays at Brisbane Airport in the past year but the airport's owners claim it can handle hundreds of extra aircraft every day.
The Courier-Mail has learnt more than 500,000 passengers on Qantas flights alone have been inconvenienced by delays in being able to land, as the airport gains an interstate reputation for hold-ups.
The figures come as tension builds among passengers fed up with delays and the impasse over the much-needed parallel runway, the long-term solution to the gridlock that would damage the state's economy.
The Courier-Mail can reveal the Brisbane Airport Corporation was warned four years ago that the nightly traffic jams on the runway would reach gridlock by mid-2015.
That is at least five years before a new parallel runway will be ready if construction were to begin immediately, but the BAC refuses to give the go-ahead for the project because of a funding fight with airlines.
- See more at: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/flight/story-e6freoof-1226589359764#sthash.mRjXEiIB.dpufThe Courier-Mail can reveal the Brisbane Airport Corporation was warned four years ago that the nightly traffic jams on the runway would reach gridlock by mid-2015.
That is at least five years before a new parallel runway will be ready if construction were to begin immediately, but the BAC refuses to give the go-ahead for the project because of a funding fight with airlines.
- See more at: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/flight/story-e6freoof-1226589359764#sthash.mRjXEiIB.dpuf
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