Held over two sessions today, Thursday 18 May, the jobs fair saw businesses looking to fill hundreds of positions such as cabin crew, retail and hospitality, transport, law enforcement, and security, ranging in seniority from entry-level to senior management.
A total of 2,710,505 people arrived or departed from Melbourne Airport in April 2023, up from 2,264,236 in April 2022. This was driven by a 136 per cent increase in international passengers, up from 325,077 to 773,645, while domestic passengers dipped 0.1 per cent from 1,939,159 to 1,936,860.
The $2.6 billion Sydney Gateway project has laid the last of the 86 steel girders on the flyover bridge into the airport’s domestic terminals, which will separate drivers going to the airport from those bound for Mascot and Port Botany.
The 4Cyte clinic in the international terminal is set to close at 6pm today, following the closure of the Histopath clinic last Friday. The two clinics tested 147,244 passengers between them over the past 18 months.
The government is conducting a 90-day review of the entire $120 billion Infrastructure Investment Program pipeline, which includes the $10 billion Melbourne Airport rail link originally slated to open by 2029. The broader Suburban Rail Loop project is exempt from the review.
The two parallel north-south runways were shut down, leaving the east-west runway the only one in operation, after the airport was impacted by strong winds early this morning. The runways were reopened by noon as south-westerly winds eased.