Battle lines are being drawn between the federal and NSW governments over the placement of a second Sydney Airport, as the bipartisanship called for in the wake of a dire study on the city’s airport needs appears predictably elusive. Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has in recent days accused conservative NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell of
The federal government has rejected tougher regulation of Australia’s airports but has assigned the country’s competition watchdog to monitor airports for abuses of market power. That comes on the heels of a pair of reports on airports: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s annual airport monitoring report and the results of an inquiry by the
Melbourne Airport has released plans to begin work on its new $300 million domestic terminal in October with an aim to open the doors by July 2014. The 35,000 square metre T4 terminal, to be built to the south of the current T3, will be designed to accommodate up to 20 million passengers per year
International Architecture firm Wood Bagot has been commissioned to complete the redesign of Perth Airport’s domestic and international terminals as the airport expands to meet a passenger boom. The first phase of the expansion, construction of a $200 million new domestic terminal aimed primarily at spiking regional travel, is already underway and scheduled for completion
The parent company of airports in Auckland, Cairns, Mackay and Queenstown has reported a 5.5 per cent increase in half yearly profits on the back of strong demand for international travel. Auckland Airport said after-tax profits for the group rose to NZ$69.1 million (A$53.6m) for the six months ending December 31. Revenues were up 8.9
A long awaited report on Sydney’s airport needs has warned that the city faces ‘aircraft deadlock’ within a decade and will need a second airport by 2030. But the study’s key recommendations – raising the cap on hourly aircraft movements at the current airport and building a second airport at Badgery’s Creek in the city’s
