{"id":4065,"date":"2015-12-02T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2015-12-02T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:33:26","slug":"no-big-planes-for-badgerys-creek-2nd-airport-only-good-for-budget-airlines-by-ed-husic-federal-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"No big planes for Badgerys Creek; 2nd airport only good for budget airlines by Ed Husic, Federal MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas boss Alan Joyce has proved what I&#8217;ve been saying all along in terms of Sydney&#8217;s second airport<strong>: <\/strong>Qantas will not put its planes and the big carriers will not put its planes at the second airport. What they see the second airport doing is basically being a house for budget airlines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The question that has to be asked is<strong>:<\/strong> is this a good use of scarce government dollars when what we should be doing is lifting the capacity of Kingsford Smith.<\/p>\n<p>And I certainly do agree, in a rare moment of agreement with the Government, we should not be putting money early on into a rail link to Badgerys Creek.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of needs for Western Sydney<strong>:<\/strong> schools, hospitals, better infrastructure. And we should not be wasting money early on, when we don&#8217;t have the money there, in doing this and Alan Joyce has shown exactly what we&#8217;ve said: If people think that Qantas and Virgin are going out to the second airport \u2014 think again.<\/p>\n<p>This is more about keeping Northern and Eastern Sydney residents happy about the existence of a second airport, rather than actually delivering a vital piece of infrastructure for Sydney&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas boss Alan Joyce has proved what I&#8217;ve been saying all along in terms of Sydney&#8217;s second airport: Qantas will not put its planes and the big carriers will not put its planes at the second airport. What they see the second airport doing is basically being a house for budget airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,33,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}