iscover
Around 47,000 more passengers transited the airport in the 2025 holiday peak than in 2024, with 600,000 in December and a further 637,000 in January. It comes as airlines including Qantas, Jetstar, and Fiji Airways look to ramp up services from the Gold Coast.
Featuring several hundred metres of new conveyor belts, alongside Rapiscan CT screening technology, higher throughput, and updated infrastructure to “minimise operational disruptions and downtime”, construction on the facility began in May last year and took seven months to complete.
The Australian Airports Association has joined forces with Regional Capitals Australia to advocate for “fairer airfares, stronger connectivity and more sustainable airports” ahead of this year’s Productivity Commission and Senate inquiries into regional air transport.
Lounges in Rockhampton, Gladstone, Kalgoorlie, Tamworth, Coffs Harbour, Port Hedland, and Karratha will be temporarily closed over various dates between 5 February and 19 March for the renovations, which follow the opening of a refreshed Broome lounge in 2024.
Grimshaw and Mott MacDonald will lead the architectural design and engineering respectively for the program, which will see the T2 and T3 domestic terminals joined into one larger precinct with gates added to serve some international traffic.
17.17 million passengers travelled through Sydney’s T1 international terminal in 2025, with the December quarter also the airport’s busiest in history for international passengers at more than 4.62 million, up 5.9 per cent on the same time in 2024.
PROFILES
Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
Raising the Bar in Commercial Laundry: How Rinse & Repeat Is Redefining Service for Aviation
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
UPRT Australia- Transforming Aviation’s Greatest Risk into Its Greatest Asset
