Press Releases

20/6/08 - QUEENSLAND AIRPORTS GROUP SUSTAINS PASSENGER NUMBERS
Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) has today released the passenger movement figures for its three airports – Townsville, Mount Isa and Gold Coast for the month of May 2008.

26/5/08 - NORFOLK AIR JOINS INTERNATIONAL LINE-UP
NORFOLK Air is the second international carrier to announce services into Gold Coast Airport in as many days, following on from the announcement of Jetstar’s Gold Coast- Osaka service last week.

5/6/08 - GOLD COAST AIRPORT WELCOMES MAJOR JETSTAR ANNOUNCEMENT
The Gold Coast Airport has welcomed news this afternoon from Jetstar that it will commence flights directly from Tokyo (Narita) Japan, into the Gold Coast five times per week.

20/5/08 - GOLD COAST WELCOMES DAILY JAPAN SERVICE
JETSTAR will be the latest low cost international carrier to fly into Gold Coast Airport following the official announcement of the Gold Coast - Japan service today.

16/5/08 - BREAKFAST ON THE TARMAC MARKS RUNWAY EXTENSION FIRST ANNIVERSARY
GOLD Coast Airport has celebrated the first anniversary of the opening of the runway extension with a ‘Breakfast on the Tarmac’.

6/5/08 - PINT SIZE RUNNER KICK STARTS GOLD COAST AIRPORT MARATHON CORPORATE TEAM
SHE only just makes the cut for the 10km run in this year’s Gold Coast Airport Marathon but the Gold Coast Airport is pretty happy to have her as the first registered member of their corporate team.

29/4/08 - A NEW SISTER FOR GOLD COAST AIRPORT
A ‘sister airport agreement’ between Gold Coast Airport and Macau International Airport has signified a new era of the ‘open skies’ agreement between two of the Asia Pacific region’s fastest growing cities.

15/4/08 - NEW WATER-WISE LANDSCAPE PLAN FOR GOLD COAST AIRPORT
Gold Coast Airport’s multi-million dollar make-over is set to kick off next month with a new $900,000 landscaping plan to be rolled out across the site.

8/4/08 - GOLD COAST AIRPORT SPONSORS TWEED HEALTHY WATERWAYS PROJECT
GOLD Coast Airport has reinforced its commitment to managing the environmental values of it’s catchment by contributing significant financial support to the Tweed Shire Council’s ‘Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program’ (EHMP).

2/4/08 - $100 MILLION TERMINAL REDEVELOPMENT TAKES OFF
Travellers through Gold Coast Airport will notice changes next month as the airport’s $100million terminal redevelopment takes off.

4/3/08 - GOLD COAST AIRPORT WELCOMES DAILY CANBERRA SERVICES
Gold Coast Airport is set to continue its domestic passenger boom with Virgin Blue commencing daily direct flights between Canberra and the Gold Coast from today (4/3).

22/1/08 - GOLD COAST AIRPORT VOTED ‘BEST LOW COST AIRPORT’ – AGAIN!!!
Gold Coast Airport is on a hat trick being voted best low cost airport in the Asia Pacific for the second time in as many months.

3/3/08 - GOLD COAST HITS THE AIR NEW ZEALAND RADAR
Air New Zealand is set to be a frequent tail at Gold Coast Airport with the airline today announcing it will absorb all services operated by its subsidiary airline, Freedom Air, from March 30, 2008.

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