Meanwhile Brisbane struggles to get a second runway going.

Meanwhile Sydney is in total paralysis over expansion of airport capacity.

Maybe it is simply time for Australian head offices to give up on Sydney.  It's pretty, but persevering with Sydney as a place to do business courtesy of the mediocre infrastructure that governments at all levels don't want to fix means sticking with Sydney for any company is WOFTAM.

maybe they should also invest in some form of public transport to and from the airport to the CBD

I was going to say, "perhaps a train first", but that seemed churlish.

By all accounts, you'll have to head to Avalon if you want a rail connection to the City anytime soon.....

NO your not being churlish. if memory serves.the deal done by the Kennet goverment to appease City Link, there would be no rail link to tullamarine,up to date no goverment of any party has had the guts to change this disgusting policy, so city link now has no opposition till ther contract finishes.Once again the public has to suffer !!!

Quote: "Meanwhile Sydney is in total paralysis over expansion of airport capacity"

Disagree - Perth is.  This capacity of SYD is artificially capped by the 80 per hour movement cap enshrined in the legislation.  Nothing to do with the actual capacity of the airport,  nor Airservices ability to manage the traffic; notwithstanding single-runway operations.  The Minister for Mascot is completely repsonsible - and quite clearly is comfortable being responsible - for the continuing debacle with movement caps and curfews which together are plaguing the ability of SYD to be able for efficiently and effectively cater for the air traffic which operates there let alone for any further growth.

Politically motivated capping, curfews and 'noise sharing' schemes and the consistent refusal of airline operators to schedule more effectively and sympathetically into SYD, PER and BNE to help balance demand against capacity, makes an already farcical situation now almost completely unsustainable.  Unenthusiastic (read: ignorant?) airport authorities are now 20 years behind the times in reacting to catering for the current demand let alone for future demand which will lead to more of the same....so get used to it.  The parallel runway in BNE won't make a jot of difference when it finally becomes operational and until WAC admit they have capacity and infracstructure issues (i.e. parallel runway, rapid exit taxyways...) to deal with, PER will continue to be a basket case while the resources boom persists.

What is the point of building a third runway @ Tulla, if transport is not adequate to handle the growing numbers of end users . I wonder if government authorities pay for the use of the  car park @ Tulla? Big $$$,  or whether they catch a "Sky Bus" to the airport? one would think not, because if  it were the case ,a train line  would have been put there years ago. I think $500 Mil or more just spent on up grading  Mel airport also. Can anyone tell?