iscoverThe rate of growth of traffic at Australia’s airports showed cotinued improvement during the 2012/13 financial year, achieving an average four per cent increase. The number of revenue passenger movements recorded by BITRE for the last financial year was 142.8 million, up from million 137.2m in FY 2012. Regional traffic across Australia, however, declined by
Airservices has commissioned its new $16.9 million control tower at Adelaide Airport, in what Adeialde Airport has described as “a generational change in air traffic control, moving from a paper-based system to electronic”. At 44 metres high, the new tower, which is more than twice the height of the former building built in 1983, mirrors
The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) has reported on-time performance by Australia’s major airlines for July as being “worse than the long-term average performance for all routes”. Following a similar trend, the rate of flight cancellations was also higher. For July 2013, on-time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines averaged
Although he may have committed to doing something about a second airport for Sydney re-elected, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese continues to stifle both airport capacity and economic stimulus, recently removing three vital early-morning slots from Qantas. The slots, which had been granted for flights arriving between 0500 and 0600, were pivotal to Qantas’s renewed push
Qantas may be forced to plan for a dramatic reduction in its services through the hub due to critical runway works at the Middle East hub. Qantas has confirmed it is facing changes to its Dubai schedule for three months from May next year as repair works on the airport’s two runways are undertaken. The
The NSW Business Chamber has weighed into the second Sydney airport debate, issuing an economic report that shows more than 28,000 jobs could be created in western Sydney by the development of an airport at Badgerys Creek. Prepared by Deloitte Access Economics, the report examined three growth scenarios modelled for economic impact on the local
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