Canberra Airport besieged by sleep apnea

If you live near an airport you should expect noise! I get really angry when people buy a house near a facility like an airport, then start moaning about the noise.

I say fuck noise over suburban areas…. who cares…. its only queanbeyan for fucks sake

OMG!!! ONE controller on duty at Canberra airport? I can’t think of another supposedly international airport that has one person on duty from 6AM and doesn’t even operate 24 hours a day.

It’s no wonder people don’t want to come and live in the ACT, when it looks and acts like a backwater jack.

Mr Evil,

Noise over suburban areas. In this case Queanbeyan and close lying areas of Canberra to the airport.

I know Canberra isn’t a 24hr operational airport, but why dont they open the airport before 6am?

I don’t know if it applies in this case, but there is currently an industrial dispute between air-traffic controllers and Airservices Australia.

The air-traffic controllers say their numbers have been cut back too far and the number crunchers in charge have been relying on soaring rates of overtime to cope. There’s apparently an industrial campaign for controllers not to answer their phones on days off so they can’t be called in for overtime to cover shortfalls.

Bec,

It is easier to smuggle drugs when no-one is watching i guess.

Then why on earth do they schedule a flight to arrive before the airport opens?

Folks, Canberra airport is not a 24hr facility, the red eye from Perth regurarly arrives before the airport opens and so has to do some laps

I’ve been on that flight before when we boarded at midnight but didn’t take off until 0115 because we would have been arriving in Canberra too early

stronger winds anywhere along the 4000km flight will only make the flight faster and they cannot know the windspeed along that entire distance

Feh. Standard busines practise – keep cutting back until something embarrasing goes wrong, then claim to have “fixed” the problem by going back to the way it probably was before (if it’s always been just one guy there in the morning, I’m shocked this hasn’t happened before – even these guys are human and fallable).

That’s just great, isn’t it? I would like to know why they only have one Controller on duty anyway, or why there isn’t at least some sort of back-up if this problem arises.

In June/July last year a QANTAS 737 got a little too close to a mountain south of Canberra whilst in a holding pattern while waiting for someone to come and put the “Open” sign up at Canberra Airport. Again, I believe that someone had slept in/fallen ill that particular morning too.

Jesus, this is the capital city of Australia; not some bloody backwater.