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As reported in The Australian, around a dozen flights were cancelled and others delayed by 15 minutes to more than an hour in Sydney on Thursday, with Airservices also using ground delays at other airports to pump the brakes on arrivals and departures at Kingsford Smith Airport.
Both domestic and international travel were up on 2024, with domestic increasing by 4.9 per cent and international by 6.5 per cent, for a total increase of 5.4 per cent year-on-year. A record high of 5,596 international flights operated in or out of the airport, carrying 1,222,570 passengers.
Several flights on Tuesday morning were delayed, including Qantas, Korean Airlines and Singapore Airlines services, and hundreds of passengers were moved outside in a “precautionary evacuation” after smoke from the air conditioning unit tripped fire alarms.
Around $351.1 million worth of goods left South Australia in the bellies of aircraft over the past year, according to the first release of ABS export stats for 2026, with lobster exports alone tripling year on year to a record $137.3 million over the last 12 months.
South Korea’s Land Ministry, in a report disclosed to the country’s National Assembly, said that the concrete mound supporting the localiser at Muan International Airport had failed to meet safety standards specifying it had to be breakable if located within 240 metres of the end of the runway.
An exclusive Foo Fighters concert, to be held at University of Tasmania Stadium on 24 January, will see around 6,700 passengers travel through Launceston the day before, with Qantas, Virgin and Jetstar all putting on extra flights to meet the anticipated demand.
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