The new Route 100, which will link the airport directly with the Cairns CBD as well as the hospitals and lagoon, will begin operating on 23 November. Buses will run every 30 minutes from 4am to 10pm every day except Christmas Day and Good Friday.

P1, which will replace the “outgrown forecourt road” in use since 1986, includes more than 1,700 parking bays as well as passenger pick-up and drop-off, taxis, rideshare services, and accessible parking. The current trials will determine a time frame for the official opening.

The aircraft, registration VH-MPT, crashed into open grass farmland around seven minutes after take-off from Archerfield Airport in Queensland on 7 September 2026, with a pilot and a passenger on board. The aircraft caught alight upon impact, and both occupants were fatally injured.

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Australian Computer Society CEO Dr Prins Ralston has said Australians deserve to have “confidence that the information they entrust to it is protected throughout its technology supply chain” in the wake of the Amadeus data breach.

CASA said it had reason to believe that Fortescue Helicopters maintains a “deliberately and systematically non-compliant safety culture” and regularly directs its pilots to operate outside of regulatory guidelines.

Investment NSW has confirmed that it will not host a dedicated NSW stand for the event at Avalon Airport in Melbourne from 23 to 28 February, saying it will instead focus on Indo Pacific 2027 in Sydney.

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