Category: Airports

The NSW Government and Sydney Airport have announced they will jointly invest almost $500 million to improve ground traffic flow in and around Sydney Airport. The NSW Government will contribute more than $282 million towards road projects around the airport for WestConnex enabling works and other projects to address pinch points. The WestConnex project will

A power outage attributed to an issue with an electrical substation caused chaos at Sydney Airport’s domestic Terminal 2 on Friday morning, resulting in disruptions to flights operated by tenants Virgin Australia, Jetstar, Tigerair and Regional Express. The outage, which lasted about three hours, meant airlines could not process passenger check-ins, nor could security screening

Philippine low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific has announced plans to operate services between Manila and Sydney from September. The airline says it will commence services on September 9 using new Airbus A330-300 equipment configured in a very high-density, nine-abreast, all-economy, 436-seat layout. Flights will initially operate four-times-a-week. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Airservices Australia says it will commence construction of a new $11.4 million aviation rescue fire station at Coffs Harbour Airport this week. Airservices Executive general manager projects and engineering, Mark Rodwell, said that the new fire station was being built following a sustained increase in passenger numbers which took it above the regulatory trigger for