Whitsunday Coast Airport (WCA) plans to expand its terminal and expand the runway to handle the expected tripling in passenger numbers to more than 900,000 between now and 2035. The airport’s owners, Whitsunday Regional Council, have adopted the airport’s master plan and feasibility study, which has proposed terminal improvements, a runway extension and the expansion
Townsville Airport will soon have its own Australian Border Force (ABF) staff and permanent passenger processing facilities for international flights as the clock ticks down towards Jetstar’s inaugural service from the North Queensland city to Bali. Jetstar’s three times a week Townsville-Bali flights to Bali with Airbus A320s is due to take off from September
Airport Safety Week is returning for a second year in 2015. The first ever Airport Safety Week took place in 2014, with 74 airports in Australia and New Zealand participating a week-long series of events to promote a safe working environment for airport staff. This year’s Airport Safety Week will take place from October 26-30
Qantas is boosting service to Queensland with a return to Maroochydore (Sunshine Coast) from December and new flights to the Gold Coast due to take off from October. The start of a new daily Melbourne-Gold Coast non-stops from October 25 with Boeing 737-800s builds on Qantas’s return to the Glitter Strip three years ago in 2012 when it started
Improved conditions have allowed Virgin Australia and Jetstar to operate flights to and from Bali and bring back travellers left stranded due to the Mount Raung ash cloud, with Qantas also pitching in to help return Australians home. Both Virgin and Jetstar say conditions at the airport on Tuesday are safe for flying, but caution that the Mount
Jetstar has scheduled a number of flights to and from Bali for Monday after deciding it was safe to operate flights into and out of the airport. Flights into and out of Bali have been severely disrupted in the past week as the ash cloud from the Mount Raung volcano forced airlines to cancel flights
