The Federal Government announced the construction of Brisbane Airport to be built immediately north east of Eagle Farm Airport. For example, the north-east end of the main runway (04/22) survives as taxiway Papa of the present airport, while the Eagle Farm international terminal is now the Brisbane Airport cargo terminal. Some of the infrastructure at Eagle Farm Airport was incorporated into today's Brisbane Airport. Darwin), disadvantaging the city to lure prospective carriers and business opportunities. Many long-haul international services to Asia were required to make an en route stop (i.e. īy the 1960s, the facilities at Eagle Farm Airport were inadequate for a city of Brisbane's size and anticipated growth. The United States Armed Forces upgraded the airfield (Eagle Farm Airport) to cater for military flights, bringing it to such a standard that it became the main civilian airport for the city. There is now a museum containing the original aircraft, along with a memorial located within the Brisbane Airport precinct.ĭuring the Second World War, Brisbane was the headquarters of the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur. While in operation, Charles Kingsford Smith landed at Eagle Farm on 9 June 1928, after completing the first trans-pacific flight in his Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross. Although Qantas started operations there in 1926, most of the flights in Brisbane operated at the Archerfield Airport, which contained a superior landing surface. The Kingsford Smith Memorial, housing the Southern Crossīrisbane's first airport was Eagle Farm Airport that was built in 1925 on former agricultural land in the suburb of Eagle Farm located 6 km (3.7 mi) north-east of Brisbane, 5 km (3.1 mi) south-west of Brisbane Airport's Domestic Terminal. On 30 March 2020, runway 14/32 was decommissioned early as part of Brisbane's new runway 'Operational Readiness & Testing' phase so that the newly decommissioned cross runway could be used for aircraft parking. The Royal Flying Doctor Service has one of its nine Queensland bases at Brisbane Airport. JETGO Australia also operated from Brisbane Airport until its demise in 2018. The airport has international and domestic passenger terminals, a cargo terminal, a general aviation terminal and apron as well as two runways. Other airlines, namely QantasLink, and Alliance Airlines also conduct maintenance at their respective facilities at the airport.
Virgin Australia has a smaller maintenance facility at the airport, where line-maintenance on the airline's 737 fleet is performed. It is also home to Qantas' A330 and B737 heavy maintenance facilities. Brisbane has the third highest number of domestic connections in Australia following Sydney and Melbourne. īrisbane Airport is a major hub for both Virgin Australia and Qantas, and a secondary hub for Qantas' low cost subsidiary Jetstar.
In 2016, an OAG report named Brisbane airport as the fifth-best performing large-sized airport in the world for on-time performance with 86.71% of arrivals and departures occurring within 15 minutes of their scheduled times, slipping from 88.31% the year before. The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, in total amounting to more than 22.7 million passengers who travelled through the airport in 2016. Passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) and Airservices Australia īrisbane Airport ( IATA: BNE, ICAO: YBBN) is the primary international airport serving Brisbane and South East Queensland.
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