A Celebrity 747 for the New Year’s international party circuit at Canberra Airport, and Moruya wants jets, but will it also have an airport cat like the moggy that used to mug its way aboard every big flight in the 70s for a complimentary saucer of milk?
Photo pinched from Moruya Aero Club site. They do great scenic joy flights!
In another preview of things that Canberra Airport would like to see come, and soon, a chartered 747 will be leaving the airport for America some time after the New Year fireworks are over in Sydney, as a carriage for celebrity party goers!
It’s a story with everything for CBR’s owners . It’s being used as a second Sydney Airport, it’s using its curfew free status, and they don’t have to build a special railway station to welcome them by fast train.
Because they are flying there by ‘light’ aircraft, that are Sydney curfew exempt, after the pyrotechnics are over, and will then high tail it to Las Vegas.
But there is another story in today’s Canberra Times that is at least as important when it comes to Sydney and its airport issues, and that is the one about the intention to upgrade Moruya’s airport to take 737s or A320s.
As earlier reported, there are likely to be dozens of regional NSW towns replacing today’s small turbo-props with tomorrow’s regular sized jets within 10 years. Whether than can be accommodated at Sydney Airport, or move those flights instead with all of their associated economic activity to Brisbane and Melbourne is a question that goes to the competency of the NSW government in ensuring the Sydney continues to cope with the growth in activity that is already becoming apparent in the Asia Century.
Moruya is perfect for a low cost A320s or two a day. Come to think of it, Cooma could be too. Both are airports Ryanair would label as Canberra without even blushing. In the 70s and possibly into the 80s Ansett subsidiary Airlines of NSW used to fly a Fokker Friendship schedule to Moruya, with some of those flights being combined with a Cooma service, making for a very short but superbly scenic hop between the south coast town and the northern approaches to the Snowy Mountains.
There was also a Moruya airport cat that couldn’t resist bounding up the rear stairs of the Friendship while the flight was turned around. It was such a part of the scene that the hostesses as they were once called would be ready to pour a saucer of milk for the moggy as soon as it stuck its head around the corner.
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