[COM] Adelaide Airport T1 Terminal | $260m

[monotonehell]

...Have a look at the T1 Level 2 concourse map here. Number 15 is Opals Cafe. This is accessable from the International Departure gates (opposite gate 18).

You are right. This is the only cafe accessible after immigration. Must not have noticed it as I have my beverages on the other side...

Cheers

Join the Qantas Club - you get beverages on every side.

[Adamo]

Well it is a great system when you think about it.

Could be a lot worse. In Singapore Airport, the majority of shops are beyond the customs point, but there is still plenty of food outlets outside where family can join you before you go through to the gate.

I love for domestic flights in Adelaide you can see your friends coming off the plane! You don't need to wait behind any check point!

And good improvements in the speed of collecting and declaring goods after the international flights. I used to live in Singapore and i flew back home to adelaide regularly and before it was awfully slow It has improved!

Anyway, enough rambling

[UrbanSG]

Adelaide Airport sure is being put to the test this morning thanks to fog in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Unusual to have all 3 cities in fog at the same time.

The airport webcam shows a full house and the picture of the line up on the tarmac on the adelaidenow website sure is different for Adelaide

[bm7500]

Here you go!

[rogue]

I went to check it out this morning. Planes everywhere. Few pics from shitty phone. Plus one from AdelaideNow.







Malaysian B777, Qantas B747, Cathay Pacific A330




Emirates A340. Wouldn't it be nice to see these more regularly.




Bizaare Virgin at the wrong end, 2x Qantas B767's and 2x Cathay A330's.

Why cant this be everyday?!?!?!

[bm7500]

I think its pretty much park them wherever they will fit today!

Wish i wasnt working today, i would have been down there in a flash! Hopefully this is a taste of things to come once the Mining Boom comes to SA

... BTW, just being padantic, but there is only 1 QF 767 in the webcam shot. The other is a QF A330 (the winglets give it away)

[bm7500]

And in other Airport news.....

Go-ahead for airport solar power station

By: MICHAEL OWEN, CARA JENKIN
March 10, 2008 11:30pm

ADELAIDE Airport will have the second-largest rooftop solar plant in Australia when work finally starts this week on a project frustrated by more than two years of delays.

Adelaide Airport Limited today announced the largest commercial solar installation contract in South Australia.

BP Solar will manufacture and supply 760 solar panels to be installed on the middle of the airport's Terminal 1 roof by construction company Hansen Yuncken. The solar photovoltaic panels will combined measure about 130m by 9m and take up 1170sqm of roof space.

The panels will be visible from the air but - contrary to Premier Mike Rann's hope - will not be seen from the ground.

The 114 kilowatt system will generate 160 megawatt hours of electricity a year, equivalent to the average electricity consumption of 30 houses.

It is expected to be producing electricity - free of greenhouse gas emissions - for the airport complex by July.

The Advertiser Watch has campaigned for six months to get the Adelaide Airport Solar Project off the ground.

It also ends months of secrecy about the project, which is funded with $1 million of taxpayers' money.

The project was announced on October 9, 2005, by Mr Rann.

In November, The Advertiser reported a dispute between the Premier and AAL about the project's direction, after revealing in September that the original concept had been axed.

Hansen Yuncken project manager Chris Jones said the greenhouse gas emission savings of the new plan were equal to taking 40 cars off the road every year.

"The Adelaide Airport solar system is estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 160 tonnes each year," he said.

AAL corporate affairs general manager John McArdle said the project was a "major initiative in reducing the carbon footprint of Adelaide Airport".

"Aside from the energy saving initiatives we built into the new terminal, we're now looking for other ways in which to conserve energy and save water," he said.

The airport solar plant will be the second largest of its kind in Australia. Victoria has the largest rooftop plant - on the Queen Victoria Market - at 220kW.

The SA system is expected to supply a significant amount of Adelaide Airport's annual electricity demands, saving AAL about $35,000 a year.

But the company yesterday could not provide an exact breakdown.

The system also will contribute extra power generated into the electricity grid in peak times.

Mr Rann yesterday declined to comment. His principal media adviser, Jill Bottrall, said the Premier was "very happy to let others talk about the project".

Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith yesterday said it appeared AAL's common sense had prevailed over the Premier's "ego".

In November, Mr Rann criticised AAL in Parliament, saying that: "Never has it been so hard to give away money as it has been giving it to Adelaide Airport."

As revealed by The Advertiser on September 17, the original concept for the project was axed two years after Mr Rann announced the airport would be the first in Australia to be solar powered.

In September, The Advertiser reported an airport and Government working group had decided to "go for a completely new concept".

It later emerged that the airport favoured a concept it said was operating in the city of Adelaide very successfully and could be delivered within budget.

The Premier, however, wanted to ensure any project had a "visual" component to try to highlight the Government's environmental credentials.

BP Solar regional director Brooke Miller yesterday said the panels would be located in the middle of the Terminal 1 roof, directly above the main concourse, and would be highly visible - from the air.

"Whether you are from overseas or interstate, when you fly into Adelaide the first impression you will receive is of a state that is doing its utmost to ensure that solar power is a part of our energy future," she said.

Bout time...

[rogue]

... BTW, just being padantic, but there is only 1 QF 767 in the webcam shot. The other is a QF A330 (the winglets give it away)

You've got better eyes than me. I cant squint that much

[Norman]

When I was up at Flinders today, I saw this massive plane take off at around 1.45pm. It was such a wonderful sight. I suppose it was a 747?

[bm7500]

When I was up at Flinders today, I saw this massive plane take off at around 1.45pm. It was such a wonderful sight. I suppose it was a 747?

What colours was it?

[Norman]

When I was up at Flinders today, I saw this massive plane take off at around 1.45pm. It was such a wonderful sight. I suppose it was a 747?

What colours was it?

No idea, it took off across the sun so all I saw was a massive plane silhouette.

[AtD]

LOL! Fantastic. Any more photospam?

[bm7500]

LOL! Fantastic. Any more photospam?

Yep, have a look here: http://jetspotter.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 6858#56858(just scroll up)

[Düsseldorfer]

bahaha i wanna see an A380 diverted to Adelaide someday :wank:

[bm7500]

bahaha i wanna see an A380 diverted to Adelaide someday :wank:

Don't laugh, Adelaide Airport is equipped to handle diversions of A380's. The new terminal has a gate designed to accomodate it and the main runway is long enough to handle A380's for both take offs and landings!

If regular passenger services of the A380 came online for Adelaide it would mean that both the runways & taxiways would need to be widened to allow for the significant overhang of its engines, but the occasional diversion is not an issue.