Anyone know when ADL's new airport will finally open???
Anyone know when ADL's new airport will finally open???.
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Anyone know when ADL's new airport will finally open???
Am going next month & was hoping to use the new airport. I am a big fan of South Australia, but apparently there are STILL problems with contamination of fuel lines. Bit embarrassing for the state, especially with all the construction publicity etc. The way things are going you would think Adelaide was in New Zealand!
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One of the last official comments from the airport was:
"AAL is unable to advise on the date for the likely transfer of domestic air services to the
new terminal until the fuel hydrant system is fully operational."
The earliest it could possibly open using the current pipes is around a month from now. They still have more cleaning and testing to do.
Re: Anyone know when ADL's new airport will finally open???
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Originally Posted by frequent passport user
Am going next month & was hoping to use the new airport. I am a big fan of South Australia, but apparently there are STILL problems with contamination of fuel lines. Bit embarrassing for the state, especially with all the construction publicity etc. The way things are going you would think Adelaide was in New Zealand!
Hi frequent passport user,
This is already covered in two other topics that I'm aware of.
You might be better advised to post this on one of those. 8) 8) 8) 8)
Another report on the Adelaide airport debacle in The Australian.
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SOUTH Australia's Premier is angry. The state's tourism chief is frustrated. And the airport manager is just plain embarrassed. Adelaide's new $260million airport terminal remains closed to domestic traffic more than three months after Prime Minister John Howard officially opened it.
Nobody has any idea when it will be opened, although the airport's privately owned operator, Adelaide Airport Ltd, has hinted the best he can hope for is "early February".
But no one is holding his breath. More than half a dozen dates have come and gone, each superseded by problems with the underground network of pipes to supply fuel to aircraft.
And the airlines have given the thumbs down to using tankers, according to this report in The Australian.
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QANTAS and Virgin Blue have rejected Adelaide airport's invitation to use tankers to refuel their planes at the new domestic terminal while contractors battle to clean its contaminated underground fuel system.
The two domestic airlines are refusing to shift to the new terminal until the system is clean, saying the option of using tankers puts passengers at risk.
The opening of the $260million terminal for domestic airlines has turned into a fiasco. It has been delayed for three months by contamination in the underground fuel pipe system.
Adelaide Airport managing director Phil Baker, returning from several weeks' holiday, said yesterday it was "supremely frustrating" that domestic airlines had refused to move until the terminal was ready, but they were contractually within their rights to do so.
International and regional airlines have temporarily adopted the tanker option so they can use the new terminal while contractor Hansen Yuncken works with fuel supplier Exxon Mobil to fix the fuel system.
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