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Rex hopes for airport resolution soon Regional Express (Rex) is hopeful that problems experienced by passengers arriving at Adelaide’s new airport terminal will be resolved and timelines for remedial plans set by early March. Rex’s Managing Director, Geoff Breust, said after talks with Adelaide Airport Ltd (AAL), airport management in consultation with Rex would examine all options for bussing arriving regional passengers from the aircraft to a suitable location inside the terminal building as a priority. Regional passengers face long distances walking to and from their
aircraft, have described the covered walkways as “hot and claustrophobic” and the in-bound security screening as “overly aggressive” and intrusive. Rex has been inundated with customer complaints since it became one of the first operators to start using the new terminal early this year. Mr Breust said while an inbound bus could pass directly from the airport to the terminal, the space beneath the terminal building would only allow a clearance of 2.4m and to-date a bus “low enough” had not been found. “Bussing through the
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roadway beneath the terminal would have enabled us to look at ways to deliver passengers close to the new baggage collection area, and avoid the need for security screening of regional passengers as they arrive at the terminal,” he said. “Bussing on the outskirts of the tarmac area would create too many delays, because the bus would constantly have to stop for taxiing aircraft” he added. “We are now looking at a special arrangement in the old international terminal building with a baggage collection and departure area a little distance from the main
terminal,” explained Mr Breust. “It’s not an ideal solution. At the moment we are working with AAL to look at whether this is do-able.” He said Rex and AAL were also considering the use of buggies inside the new terminal and the installation of an extra travelator walkway. Plans were underway to revamp the walkways so that they offered shelter from the rain and wind in winter and direct sunlight in summer. “We think at the end of the day these will be reasonably acceptable solutions,” he said.
It’s raining frogs! Heavy rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday February 22-23, saw the emergence in droves of Trilling Frogs. Neobatrachus Centralis is the scientific name for the cute little amphibian which is the most prolific vertebrate in the Roxby Downs area. Trilling Frogs burrow into the ground and only emerge when there is enough water for them to feed, breed and then return underground. The frogs also provide a food source for birds and bilbies, which will burrow into the ground in search of the frogs.
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