New Sydney airport pickup rules.
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Sydney Airport continues to put the squeeze on anyone using its facilities. The latest move affects pick-ups from the domestic terminal.
New traffic management rules, effective from today, prevent anyone waiting in what was once the collection point for arriving passengers. You may hover, ever so briefly, but then you must either park or adopt a holding pattern, circling in and out of the airport until your incoming passenger is actually standing at the kerb.
The corporation says it has abolished the pick-up zone for security reasons and to fix traffic flow problems, if you can swallow that. What about the swelling number of passengers that will now be jostling for space along the kerb?
It's suggested we use our mobile phones to co-ordinate and fine tune a pick-up window of opportunity. Many of us have long been doing just that.
I saw how the new rules impacted on the domestic airport on Friday evening. And it wasn't good!
After getting off my flight in T2 and collecting my bag, I went outside to get a taxi. It was approx 10:30pm but there were quite a lot of people about. There was no queue for a taxi so I hopped in one and we left the curb. We rounded the bend and then abruptly stopped in front of the QF terminal. We then inched along very slowly. I asked the driver what the problem was - an accident perhaps? No he said... the new pick up rules. It took another (approx) 5 minutes before we reached the point just past the carpark where the right turn is located for cars that want to go around again. It was completely jammed up with cars waiting to get back onto the road in.
So this enforeced loop-the-loop rule has actually made the traffic worse than before!
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Now I wonder just how long it'll take them to work out the increased number of cars in the "loop" for longer exacerbates the problem, rather than fixing it.
Thanks Max!
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Just do what I did last night, arrange to be picked up at the departures level, hardly anyone jostling up there waiting for someone to drive up and pick them up. Easy!
I like OOL's first 15 minutes in the car park free policy, used it a few times when dropping off the boss, pity SYD and BNE cannot do the same. And if you want to pick someone up from BNE, park in the aircraft observation area near the GA apron, much more interesting entertainment and you wont goet moved on by security!
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As most of my pick-ups are at night, I did the same as thadocta (but in BNE) until BAC decided to dig up the driveway at QF domestic departures ...stuffed if I know what they are doing or what is taking them so long :? ...
Now the plan is collect bags, turn left out of the terminal and walk to DJ's departures....but can't wait to recommence the original plan. Don't want people to think I flew DJ :P
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Yesterday I did the same at Syd International and the security guard had the hide to abuse my wife saying this was departures not arrivals, and that everything was being caught on camera..............
Whatever....in the car and off we went. :roll: :roll: :roll:
As most of my pick-ups are at night, I did the same as thadocta (but in BNE) until BAC decided to dig up the driveway at QF domestic departures ...stuffed if I know what they are doing or what is taking them so long ...
Good ol' BAC has now moved the drop-off area further away from the QF entrance. The drop off area is a shambles with three lanes of cars/cabs/buses depositing pax from LHS or RHS doors into the flow with marshals blowing whistles etc.
Overheard an interesting comment on radio the other day where parking fines levied by SYD or BNE airport companies are unenforceable as they are private companies. PARK WHERE YOU LIKE!!
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