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The 22-week project, announced last July, saw 4,870 engineered materials arresting system (EMAS) blocks installed at Queenstown, increasing its effective runway end safety area from 90 to 240 metres.
Airports including Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast have all reopened to traffic, with Qantas Group and Virgin Australia both restarting flights to the region on Sunday after the danger from the storm passed. Alfred had made landfall as a tropical low on 8 March, causing severe flooding.
South Australian airports will receive almost $1.7 million in funding under the fourth round of the Regional Airports Program, while Burnie will receive $330,000. The grants bring the total from Round 4 to more than $25 million, following announcements for NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, and Queensland.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke on Sunday said he had written to a number of airports directing them to conduct safety assessments after a 17-year-old allegedly breached the security fence at Avalon armed with a shotgun and attempted to board a Jetstar flight on Thursday.
The 17-year-old, who police allege had dressed as a maintenance worker and climbed through a hole in the fence, was subdued by passengers before he could properly board flight JQ610 to Sydney.
Fleet Space Technologies said its new 5,000sqm ‘GHQ’ would be based at the airport's Catalyst Park precinct and feature “advanced manufacturing and data centre technologies”.
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