SYD Retail renovations Complete after over a Year
Was researching another question came across changes to the SYD airport web site.
New map: SYD T1 Departures
Originally Posted by serfty
(Post 12392583)
Yeah, I saw that and hedged my bets about completion.
Here's the old map: http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/SACL...%2001JUL09.pdf Also note the caption on today's map re the pier C "Customs and security": Note: This entry closes 23/09/09 It's gunna be a Bl**dy long walk from Customs and Security for those passengers departing from pier C. |
That's one long of a walk from Air New Zealands checkin (Zone J) to say gate 60.
Are Air NZ going to move zones? The inter pier walk away looked finish but not open last Wednesday. |
How much is QF paying SYD to do this? :p
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12393555)
How much is QF paying SYD to do this? :p
Seems to be just how the train station is at the Qantas end, yet the line runs past the terminal. Or how Jetconnect 733s get to use the main runway while NZ 767s have to use the short runway. I vote for NZ to take over the Domestic Express Terminal atleast it would be close to the correct runway:p |
Great way for *A passengers to lose weight, including myself for NZ SYD-WLG during Xmas. Then VS SYD-HKG in Jan.
AS for my better half, she would be complaining already by the time we get to customs from Checkin J. |
Originally Posted by cavemanzk
(Post 12393630)
I would say more than a A380 is worth. It seems so stupid to close pier C customs, NZ/EK/SQ all use the last 3 check-in islands.
Seems to be just how the train station is at the Qantas end, yet the line runs past the terminal. The Air NZ pax arriving at airport by train has to walk the complete length of check in area to reach check in desks. Once check in complete, walk back almost the complete length to get to immigration. Long queues there & at security. Then through the middle of a shop and half-way out the pier before being able to double back, past several more shops, along a corridor, through the middle of another shop, past some more shops to finally reach the gate/lounge. By this time they'll feel like they've just about walked to NZ having traversed most of the terminal not once but 3 times. |
Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12396613)
... By this time they'll feel like they've just about walked to NZ having traversed most of the terminal not once but 3 times.
Originally Posted by odysseus
(Post 264222)
It seems the difference will be negligible. I'd say you'd just go through B, then straight on to the travelators which take you right to where C was before. ...
This will add around 400 metres to the path required for someone using the J check-in simply to get the the base of the C pier. It's ~6 times the distance merely to get to the travelators. Look at the following image. Check-in is at J for a pier C flight. The base of pier C is marked with the Blue Cross. The current/old direct path is in RED, the new direct path is in BLACK: http://gallery.flyertalk.com/gallery...wSYD.sized.jpg Here a link to the original .Pdf http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/SACL...p_17-09-09.pdf |
Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12396613)
Exactly. I didn't think I'd get to see the day when an airport comes up with a more brain-dead passenger-unfriendly layout than AKL, but SYD has indeed done so.
The Air NZ pax arriving at airport by train has to walk the complete length of check in area to reach check in desks. Once check in complete, walk back almost the complete length to get to immigration. Long queues there & at security. Then through the middle of a shop and half-way out the pier before being able to double back, past several more shops, along a corridor, through the middle of another shop, past some more shops to finally reach the gate/lounge. By this time they'll feel like they've just about walked to NZ having traversed most of the terminal not once but 3 times. AKL is ridiculous re: gates 15 and 16. You have to feel just a bit for EK. Both SYD and AKL are also pretty dumb in that the traversing from start of airside to the far pier are through a lifeless corridor; SYD has travelators but AKL doesn't. Still, who wants to walk all that way through a grey-white square pipe? Also, at least in SYD once you get to pier C, there's stuff there to be had. Like airline lounges. And a couple of shops (apart from the duty free shop). And a bit of character inside the terminal - more than can be said about piers A/B. In AKL the far pier has absolutely nothing except for nice wood finishing. And if SYD and AKL weren't enough, some people might take you to the task on FRA. My main gripes with SYD are:
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AKL does have travelators on B pier, although they only cover a modest portion of the walk. While the distance is far at least you aren't doubling back and back again on yourself - there is a long straight-line distance between EK check in and the B pier gates.
SYD doesn't have that excuse. FRA has airtrain & the tunnel. It is big and confusing yes, but there aren't long distances to walk. |
Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12398469)
AKL does have travelators on B pier, although they only cover a modest portion of the walk. While the distance is far at least you aren't doubling back and back again on yourself - there is a long straight-line distance between EK check in and the B pier gates.
SYD doesn't have that excuse. FRA has airtrain & the tunnel. It is big and confusing yes, but there aren't long distances to walk. Not that I was defending SYD. I forgot to add another dot point against SYD: exorbitant fees. |
The walk from Zone J to pier C is going to add alot more than 400meters to the walk.
My rough guess from Zone J to Gate 60 is going to be 2km. |
Advice on AFF that the B0 duty free zero is open plan.
This can be walked though, so a short cut could come out near B11, saving approx 100 metres. :rolleyes: http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/SACL...p_17-09-09.pdf |
Maybe they need to implement those transit trains in HKG for those going to Pier C ..... Nah, Macquarie will then charge $20AUD per ride, or just charge extra $20 per air ticket.
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Originally Posted by edison
(Post 12399782)
Maybe they need to implement those transit trains in HKG for those going to Pier C ..... Nah, Macquarie will then charge $20AUD per ride, or just charge extra $20 per air ticket.
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Originally Posted by cavemanzk
(Post 12402240)
It already costs $15 from Central to the Airport
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