Australia’s two largest airports posted strong passenger growth in March as more international travellers pour into the country. At Melbourne Tullamarine, international passengers were up 7.3 per cent in March at 763,848, compared with the prior corresponding period. The March figures represented seven straight years of international passenger growth at Melbourne. Melbourne Airport chief executive
Perth Airport has named North Queensland Airports boss Kevin Brown as its new chief executive. Brown takes up his new role at Perth Airport in mid-July. He replaces Brad Geatches, who announced his resignation in December 2015. Before taking charge of North Queensland Airports, Brown has also worked at the British Airport Authority (BAA), including
Newcastle Airport reopened for flights on Monday after storms that resulted in a collapsed roof caused the airport to be shut down on Sunday. Flights were operating into and out of Newcastle on Monday, despite some damage to the checkin area due to flooding. The airport, airlines and contractors had managed to establish temporary manual checkin
Jetstar is the second airline to schedule evening flights into and out of Queenstown Airport. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier plans to operate a daily Melbourne-Queenstown service with Airbus A320s from June 24 that lands at the popular New Zealand tourist destination at 1920 local time, before turning around and returning to Australia at 2020. The
Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) says the use of advance passenger processing (APP) for all international flights departing the country will move travellers through airports more quickly and improve the passenger experience while maintaining national security. After a number of trials, DIBP said it had switched on its Outward APP program for
Planned industrial action at Australia’s airports for Monday and Tuesday has been called off after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) issued an interim order preventing staff from walking off the job. Over the weekend, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP), on behalf of the federal government, applied to the FWC calling for a three-month
