Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Brisbane Airport in 2016, with runway 01L/19R under construction | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Brisbane Airport Corporation | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | South East Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Brisbane Airport, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 19 March 1988 | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°23′00″S 153°07′06″E / 27.38333°S 153.11833°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of Brisbane Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Sources: AIP, the Australian Government and Airservices Australia. | |||||||||||||||
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE, ICAO: YBBN) is an international airport serving Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, total amounting to more than 22.7 million passengers who travelled through the airport in 2016. In 2016, an OAG report named Brisbane airport as the fifth-best performing large-sized airport in the world for on-time performance with 87% of arrivals and departures occurring within 15 minutes of their scheduled times, slipping from 88.31% the year before. It covers an area of 2,700 hectares (6,700 acres), making the airport the largest in land area in all of Australia.
Brisbane Airport is a hub for both Qantas and Virgin Australia, as well as an operating base for numerous airlines including Jetstar, among others. Brisbane has the third highest number of domestic connections in Australia following Sydney and Melbourne. It is also home to Qantas' Airbus A330 and Boeing 737 heavy maintenance facilities. Virgin Australia has a smaller maintenance facility at the airport, where line-maintenance on the airline's 737 fleet is performed. Alliance Airlines and QantasLink also conduct maintenance at the airport. The airport has international and domestic passenger terminals, a cargo terminal, a general aviation terminal and apron as well as two runways. JetGo also operated from Brisbane Airport until its demise in 2018.
There are several operators of emergency medical retrieval and rescue services based at the airport, including LifeFlight Australia and AVCAIR. The Royal Flying Doctor Service also has one of its nine Queensland bases at Brisbane Airport.