Perth Airport has set an all-time record for January with 1.39 million passengers travelling through the facility.
Perth Airport has set a record for January with 1.39 million passengers travelling through the facility.
The airport’s chief commercial and aviation officer Kate Holsgrove said the growth in passenger numbers was primarily driven by an ongoing strong performance in regional traffic and the recovery of international and interstate passengers.
“Last year we also set a record for a calendar year with more than 15 million passengers travelling through our terminals,” she said.
Going forward the airport is continuing to see its airline partners commit more capacity and routes in the Perth market.
“Following the dramatic impact that the pandemic had on aviation it’s fantastic to see that we are fully recovered and now experiencing growth,” Ms Holsgrove said.
“And we have been planning further investments to help our airline partners achieve their growth plans.
“These projects include expanding the international terminal, new domestic terminal facilities, a new runway, and multistorey car parks and have been part of master plan to consolidate operations into the Airport Central precinct.
“Moving all flights to Airport Central will provide seamless connections between domestic and international services for all our airline partners and will build on the investment already undertaken in the area.”
Ms Holsgrove said Perth Airport already started significant works to expand the apron for additional aircraft at T2, to cater for regional and domestic airline partners.
“It’s vital to Western Australia’s prosperity that Perth Airport continues to grow and enhance our capacity, which allows our airline partners to grow their businesses, which in turn helps the WA economy and its workers,” she said.
“With aviation in full flight we do see that our runway is at capacity in our morning and afternoon peak periods from Tuesday to Thursday and there are also significant constraints on other days of the week, highlighting the need for Perth's new runway.
“We want to continue to support WA’s international and domestic tourism and the resources sector and its important fly-in, fly-out workers, so we need to get on with construction in order to have the ability to grow with our state.”
The long running five-year dispute with Qantas that is holding up development of the Airport Central precinct and the new runway is very close to resolution, Business News understands.
Insiders in Sydney said the commercial deal was agreed with only legal points to be resolved.
