biggles Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 EXCLUSIVE: Qantas eyes Bundaberg for flying school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravity Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Rocky mayor to bid for $20million pilot training facility That was posted here pages ago, there will be more councils wanting to jump on the band wagon for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 The lack of disposable income - a direct result of rampant housing & cost-of-living increases - means most working people simply cannot afford luxuries like flying and mobile phones, internet, cable TV, hi spec cars, air conditioning, greater and wasteful foodstuffs ... there's a myriad of reasons why a simple comparison to the 70's (whenever) simply doesn't work, it's just a different world now. If you want to see why people can't afford flying, check the debt levels from then Vs now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggles Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 That was posted here pages ago, there will be more councils wanting to jump on the band wagon for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDog Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I bet you this is aimed directly at the Chinese market! They have already stated that they are in desperate need for pilots, so what better way to cash in! :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I bet you this is aimed directly at the Chinese market! They have already stated that they are in desperate need for pilots, so what better way to cash in! :) That makes a lot of sense. QANTAS had previously announced they wanted to get a bigger share of the Chinese market, and the numbers of aircraft would be big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 This link, from BITRE (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport, and Regional Economics) shows passenger movements and airport movements from 1985/86 to 2016/17 You can open the excel file, select the airport you want to study, and see for yourself the current state of GA at each of these airports. You can see steady growth at Airports like: Albany Armidale Charleville Coffs Harbour Longreach Wagga Wagga In each of these there is a market influence like tourism or business driving the figures You can see the mining industry growth, and current turn down at Airports like: Emerald Karrathta Port Hedland Townsville The fortunes of these places are driving by the mining industry and the government's policies. Your can see another group which have a fluctuating curve; some years they have increased volume, others decreased volume. And on the first page you can see the overall trends. The big drop in the graphs, was around around 1999/10 to 2002/3. https://bitre.gov.au/publications/ongoing/files/WebAirport_FY_1986-2017.xls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 this is from wikipedia, not sure how accurate it is TP, I'd love to see you data. Archerfield is the biggest GA airport in Se.QLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poteroo Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I bet you this is aimed directly at the Chinese market! They have already stated that they are in desperate need for pilots, so what better way to cash in! :) Agree When China Southern 'contracted' to the WA 'China Southern' flying school at Merredin/Jandakot to train its' cadets, (20 yrs ago), - the rumoured figure was USD120,000 per head to get them up to CPL +ATPL subjects + CIR + ME. Now, we have Qantas thinking they could do the same thing on a A$150,000 price. It does not seem to add up. Yes, I'm sure that Asian and other o/s airlines would be very happy to fill a QF branded school - simply because of the 'name'. And if you were an Aussie student pilot, having passed the QF school standards would open doors for you outside of QF. Methinks that QF might find very few of the pilot output actually want to work for them in the end. If you've paid for your entire training, then you'd hardly want to sign a contract 'bonding' you to QF indefinitely. It will be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravity Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Personally I cant see QF getting this sausage factory up and running, QF have a lot of issues behind the scenes other than very few pilots from GA coming up thru the ranks! Interesting times ahead for the Red Rat!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 this is from wikipedia, not sure how accurate it is TP, I'd love to see you data. Archerfield is the biggest GA airport in Se.QLD[ATTACH=full]54062[/ATTACH] The data is direct from BITRE, and has a top ten calculator on the spreadsheet, so should match up with yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnewbery Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Mackay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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