Latest news and insights from Australia’s airports
by The Airport Professional June 3, 2018
Major airports , Passenger experience

Regulatory stability drives private investment, ensures long term focus: Gittens

Airports Council International director-general Angela Gittens, a 25-year veteran of the airport industry who has headed the ACI since 2008, is no stranger to the stand-off over airport charges. She has been chief executive of major airports in Miami and Atlanta and was deputy chief executive at San Francisco International Airport. And she has first-hand experience with privatisation, having overseen the transition at London’s Luton Airport while working at vice-president ...

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by The Airport Professional May 30, 2018
Major airports , Passenger experience , Safety & security

Smart security streamlines passenger journey

Changes are coming to security screening at Australia’s airports and Melbourne Airport is ensuring it will be ready when they do. A redevelopment of the airport’s international screening area to boost capacity from seven lanes to 10 will also allow it to drop in computed tomography (CT) cabin baggage screening and advanced body scanners when they become available. The airport is already trialling the technology and was recently able to showcase ...

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by The Airport Professional May 3, 2018
Airport people , Major airports , Passenger experience

Kate McCreery-Carr: making excellence and efficiency part of day-to-day business

As the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the tropical rainforests of North Queensland, Cairns Airport is a bustling regional link that welcomes over five million passengers every year. Taking charge of the busy day-to-day operations to ensure excellence and efficiency, is Chief Operations Officer Kate McCreery-Carr. Kate spoke to the Airport Professional about her career so far, the need to balance priorities and how to be successful in an ...

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by The Airport Professional April 24, 2018
Airport people , Major airports

Andrew Warrender: On becoming an ‘airport person’ and young executive of the year

As a young boy with parents who loved to travel the world, Andrew Warrender had one ambition when he grew up – to be ‘an airport person’! Fast forward to his current role as Northern Territory Airports Head of Commercial and Andrew has built a career path that his young self would be proud of. Last month, Andrew’s contribution to the airport industry was recognised when he was named Airports Council ...

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by The Airport Professional April 20, 2018
Major airports , Tourism & trade

China service plants the seed for international growth

Darwin International Airport officials are convinced the Northern Territory’s first scheduled service from mainland China will be the seed from which big things grow. It gives Donghai a beachhead in Australia in an area boasting internationally renowned tourism drawcards such as Kakadu National Park that should prove attractive to independent Chinese travellers. In return, the NT gets a direct pipeline into China’s burgeoning tourism industry, a new trade link with ...

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by The Airport Professional April 19, 2018
Major airports , Passenger experience

Ground access solutions deliver passengers choice

Just as air travel has changed dramatically in recent years as more of us fly more often, getting to the airport has become an important part of passengers’ overall airport experience. With the route to many major airports contending with day-to-day metropolitan traffic, airports have been looking for new solutions to keep pace with changing passenger needs as a growing number of people visit their terminals each day. For Australia’s largest ...

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by The Airport Professional April 16, 2018
Major airports , Tourism & trade

New services deliver freight benefits at Australian airports

Air cargo is seeing a global renaissance, with international air freight trends looking good at Australia’s major east coast airports as they welcome more overseas carriers with passenger services and accompanying cargo space. The latest figures from the International Air Transport Association show global freight demand grew by 6.8 per cent in February which, when adjusted for distortions caused by the Lunar New year, translated to a 7.7 per cent increase. ...

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by The Airport Professional April 3, 2018
Major airports , Passenger experience , Tourism & trade

First impressions count as Gold Coast gets set for games

The old adage ‘if it doesn’t rain it pours’ has taken on new meaning for management at Gold Coast Airport. Not only are athletes and spectators arriving for the Commonwealth Games ahead of their start on April 4, but this has coincided with an early Easter and the popular international music festival Bluesfest at Byron Bay. The airport had a dress rehearsal of sorts on January 7 when a record day ...

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by The Airport Professional March 28, 2018
Major airports

Senate committee endorsement an important step for land use planning

As our cities become more populated, the safe and effective management of developments on and near airport land has become an increasingly important issue. While it’s an issue airports have managed effectively through extensive planning and legislative processes for many years, development just beyond the airport boundary operates in a different regulatory environment. The Australian Airports Association (AAA) has long advocated for closer alignment between the guidelines for development on and ...

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