NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has told state parliament that Bankstown Airport will be "problematic" in the future.
In a speech to parliament last night, Foley said that the rise of Western Sydney Airport would create air traffic issues and that the future of Bankstown needed to be considered.
"In future decades, as the new Western Sydney airport grows and becomes the flourishing aviation centre that Western Sydney deserves, airspace requirements will mean that the operation of Bankstown airport will become increasingly problematic," the Hansard recorded.
"Planning and consultation around developing it as an employment centre needs to be initiated now. Part of this process will involve resolving where Bankstown's air traffic will go. Some of it, of course, can be relocated to the new airport.
"The Bankstown site is situated between the M5 and the Hume Highway. With the right planning, investment and infrastructure it can be a major employment zone for jobs of the future in south-western Sydney.
"Our global economic corridor cannot be limited to Sydney's north and east. We must stretch the global arc to Sydney's south and west. It is easy to imagine Bankstown as the next Macquarie Park or Norwest Business Park, full of tens of thousands of high-wage jobs and providing employment opportunities for local people in Sydney's south and west."
Foley's remarks, which come only weeks after the holding company that owns the leases for both Bankstown and Camden, BAC Holdco, was put up for sale, seem to lack a level of credibility given that there has yet to be any suggestion that Western Sydney Airport will carry general aviation traffic.