{"id":249668,"date":"2025-07-11T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=249668"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:52:43","slug":"melbourne-airport-infrastructure-buckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=249668","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Airport infrastructure buckles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melbourne Airport\u2019s archaic passport control and terminal infrastructure are at breaking point amid winter school holiday traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple callers to&nbsp;<em>3AW<\/em>&nbsp;reported long wait times on Friday, which have since been confirmed by an airport spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the latest from Melbourne Airport<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"&#039;Not fit for purpose&#039; Melbourne Airport infrastructure buckles\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/not-fit-for-purpose-melbourne-airport-infrastructure-buckles\/embed#?secret=S1TDeIEwVF\" data-secret=\"S1TDeIEwVF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome of the infrastructure we have really isn\u2019t fit for purpose,\u201d spokesperson Andrew Lund told Tony Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The international arrivals hall is a national joke.  No train to the airport years overdue and the terminals are so small and cramped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get a few planes landing at once and your baggage takes an hour to arrive.  Worst of all, who in their right mind invested a system of smart gates with a paper ticket.  Only one in the world like that and stupid and unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have so many people coming through, we do need more border force processing infrastructure as well as more room.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You get a few planes landing at once and your baggage takes an hour to arrive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":249669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,513],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-249668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-melbourne-airport","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249670,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249668\/revisions\/249670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}