Adelaide Airport Ltd has produced a “solid” result for its 2012-13 financial year, with increased revenue and profit driven by a 15.5 per cent rise in international traffic. The arrival of Emirates a year ago, with initially four direct flights between Adelaide and Dubai, and increasing to daily services last February, was a major factor
There were 5.13 million passengers carried on Australian domestic flights in August, a modest increase of 1.9 per cent on August 2012, while the 60,232 aircraft movements for the month represented a one percent decrease. Airlines increased capacity at a rate one per cent lower than passenger traffic growth, increasing load factors and reflecting a
Ballina Byron airport has commissioned Airservices to introduce RNAV (RNP)-AR terminal instrument flight procedures – or Smart Tracking. Airservices is developing new arrival flightpaths for both Runway 06 and Runway 24 at the regional airport, which has experienced rapid high-capacity traffic growth with the introduction of services by Jetstar and Virgin Australia. The new flightpaths
If what was reported in the Daily Telegraph that the new government is getting ready to pour concrete at Badgery’s Creek, a 60-year-old hoodoo is broken. The newspaper suggests federal treasurer Joe Hockey is seeking to include funding for an airport at Badgerys Creek in the 2014/15 budget to help stimulate a slowing economy. Certainly
Airports in the Asia-Pacific region recorded double-digit growth in August 2013. According to the latest ACI statistics, summer holiday demand boosted domestic and international traffic year-on-year growth of 10 per cent in Asia-Pacific and 18.5 per cent in the Middle East. Year-to-date passenger traffic from January to August 2013 showed an increase of 6.5 per
Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) has awarded a contract for dredging and reclamation work for the airport’s new parallel runway. Work is expected “to begin within weeks”, not soon enough for airlines frustrated with continual delays despite the efforts of the airport, airlines and Airservices to optimise existing capacity. “This is a clear signal that we
