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Gold Coast Airport
Airport Directory » Australia » Gold Coast » Gold Coast AirportGold Coast Airport, or Coolangatta Airport, (IATA: OOL, ICAO: YBCG) is an Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast and is turn up some 100 kilometre (62 mi) southward of Brisbane. The gate to the airport is located in the suburban area of Bilinga on the Gold Coast. The landing track itself straddles five suburban area of twin towns across the province boundary line of Queensland and New South Wales. During summertime these provinces are in 2 different time zone.
Gold Coast Airport is 1 of the fastest turning airports in Australia, and, during financial yr 2006/2007, has dealt more than 3.7 million riders. 352,554 visitants passed through the airport in January 2007, which corresponds an all-time high of riders dealt in a individual calendar month by Gold Coast Airport.
History
| Gold Coast Airport Statistics | |
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| Year | Total Passengers |
| 2000-01 | 1,896,170 |
| 2001-02 | 1,724,107 |
| 2002-03 | 2,215,188 |
| 2003-04 | 2,576,940 |
| 2004-05 | 3,212,036 |
| 2005-06 | 3,581,646 |
| 2006-07 | 3,753,537 |
| 2007-08 | 4,100,000 |
Until 1999, the airport was known as Coolangatta Airport. It originally dwell (1936) of 3 grass strips with the aim of only supplying emergency districting dry land for airmail aircraft transiting between Brisbane and Sydney. Finally, rider voyages start for the 1st clip in 1939, using the then grassy field of the current Coolangatta location. Regular services were set about by Queensland Airlines and Butler Air Transport after the Second World War. Ansett set about its own services in 1950 using DC-3s, while Trans Australia Airlines did the like in 1954 using DC-3s to a fault as good as DC-4s and Convairs to connect other Australian towns.
By 1958, the taxi strip and landing track were fully-paved, with the subsequently being upgraded a decennium afterwards to let jet plane functioning with DC-9 and L-188 Electra aircraft to set about. The current depot, entitled Eric Robinson Building, was officially opened in 1981 by Acting Prime Minister Douglas Anthony, when at the clip more than 650,000 riders were using the airport. The coming after yr, the independent landing track was continued to 2,042 m (6,699 foot), hence allowing the use of widebody aircraft jet plane by the 2 domestic operators Ansett Australia and Trans Australia Airlines and their Boeing 767 and Airbus A300 severally on voyages from Melbourne and Sydney.
On one January 1988, the airport ownership was reassigned from the authority to the Federal Airports Corporation. Its full denationalisation come about a decennium after, when it was taken over by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) on 29 May 1998. By 1999, the corporation's name had modified to get Gold Coast Airport Pty Ltd (GCAPL). In 2003 GCAPL was taken over by Queensland Airports Limited and currently also own and function Mount Isa Airport and Townsville Airport.
Despite the name modify, Gold Coast Airport still transports IATA Airport Code, OOL.
In 1990, the airport welcomed its 1st international charter service from New Zealand, and by 1998, Air New Zealand low-cost subsidiary Freedom Air set about scheduled no-frills service from Hamilton, New Zealand with Boeing 737s. In 2007, the airport observed the reaching of AirAsia X, which set about services direct to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By January 2008, the path has turn out so popular, that all voyages up to the calendar month of March were all booked. AirAsia X has denoted they may set about a daily service from after this yr.
Infrastructure
It is expected that a railroad terminal shall be build at the airport when the Gold Coast Line is continued. The late opened Tugun Bypass supplies a much faster route connection to the Airport, with the go around also characteristic a burrow under the landing track.
The airport opened an extension to the independent landing track as good as a full length parallel taxi strip in May 2007. The landing track shall be 2,500 m (8,202 foot) long, allowing for heavier aircraft with greater bush to takeoff. On 16 May 2007, the landing track extension was officially kick off by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services, the Hon Mark Vaile MP.
Gold Coast Airport has named ADCO Constructions as the principal project and build contractor for a $100 million renovation of the airport’s briny depot. Scheduled to start out in early 2008, and be finished in 2010, level 1 of the labor will duplicate the size of it of the being installation to about 27,000 mtwo (290,000 sq foot), integrating domestic and international functioning with self service stalls and 40 common user check-in desks. The works will adapt calculate development for the next ten yr with a further enlargement, level 2, scheduled to kick in upon claim. The independent depot – integrating T1 and T2 - now houses functioning for Qantas, Jetstar Airways, Virgin Blue, Air New Zealand, Pacific Blue Airlines and AirAsia X. Terminal three adapts Tiger Airways Australia.
Tiger Airways Australia voyages function from a low cost depot with basic comforts, turn up about 200 m (660 foot) from the independent depot construction. The construction is slackly similar to Terminal four at Melbourne Airport but on a much little scale.
On 22 September 2008 it was denoted that Air Pacific will spread out its services to Australia with the unveiling of twice weekly voyages between Nadi, Fiji and the Gold Coast get down December 2008. Air Pacific’s Managing Director and CEO, John Campbell, stated "Australia is Fiji's number 1 begin of visitants and with the population turning quickly in the South East corner of Queensland we know the clip is right to present this service."
The new path set about on one December 2008 with 2 voyages per hebdomad functioned by 160 sit Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a Monday and Saturday. The service has since been suspended.
Operations
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* Newcastle path got competitory in August 2008
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