Category: Airports

Melbourne Airport recorded 8 per cent growth in international travel but a 2 per cent decline in domestic passengers for the financial year ending June 30 as overall passenger numbers were flat on a year-to-year basis. Airport CEO Chris Woodruff attributed the drop in domestic travel to the grounding of Melbourne-based Tiger Airways and the

Travel through Brisbane Airport was up 4.6 per cent last financial year to more than 21 million passengers, setting a new record despite the Qantas grounding and the collapse of Brisbane-based Air Australia. The uptick came on the back of steady growth in seat capacity, with more than one million seats added on domestic flights

Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has officially opened Airservices Australia’s first combined air traffic control (ATC) tower and fire station at Broome Airport. The ATC tower, which is the first new one in Australia in 15 years, stands at just over 16m tall, and features the latest air navigation technology, while the fire station houses three

Airservices Australia has commissioned a new terminal area radar and instrument landing system (ILS) at Canberra Airport which it says will deliver enhanced guidance and surveillance for aircraft operating there. The new terminal area radar on Mount Majura was commissioned in May, and required a temporary radar to be erected at Sandra’s View to maintain