Gold Coast Airport is ready to welcome the rest of Australia and the world when its $260 million terminal expansion opens to travellers from the first week of September, revealing an unrivalledspace that reflects the famous region’s unique culture and landscape.

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Gold Coast Airport is calling on volunteers from the Gold Coast and northern NSW to sign up for the new terminal expansion mass trial event in late August – with those interested encouraged to do so quickly.

The first new international service – Virgin Australia’s Gold Coast-Bali service – to connect with the Gold Coast Airport terminal expansion has been announced.

Gold Coast Airport passengers will be spoilt for choice when looking for something to eat, drink and buy thanks to the transformation of the food, beverage and retail outlets in the expanded and existing terminal.

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More than half a million people have travelled through Gold Coast Airport in April – the highest number in a single month since January 2020 – after consecutive long weekends supercharged the domestic travel recovery.

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Australians and overseas visitors hopped back into holiday mode on the long weekend, delivering Gold Coast Airport April passenger records.

Trans-Tasman holidays restart in both directions from today – and flights between the Gold Coast and Auckland have taken off in response to the lifting of restrictions.

Gold Coast Airport’s busiest days in two years have been recorded ahead of the peak Easter holiday period.

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Affordable, quarantine-free travel between the Gold Coast and Perth has taken off again – with Jetstar’s regular passenger service landing at Gold Coast Airport for the first time in more than eight months.

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Emotions were overflowing this morning as family and friends reunited at Gold Coast Airport after the first flight from New Zealand touched down in more than seven months.