Brisbane Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Leased Commonwealth Airport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Brisbane Airport Corporation Pty Limited | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Brisbane | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Brisbane Airport, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 1 ft / 0 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°23′00″S 153°07′06″E / 27.38333°S 153.11833°ECoordinates: 27°23′00″S 153°07′06″E / 27.38333°S 153.11833°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | bne.com.au | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers | 22,320,178 |
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| Aircraft movements | 192,917 |
| Economic impact (2012) | $7.3 billion |
| Social impact (2012) | 50.7 thousand |
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE, ICAO: YBBN) is the primary international airport serving Brisbane and South East Queensland. It is the third busiest Australian airport by aircraft movements. The airport services 26 airlines flying to 42 domestic and 28 international destinations, in total amounting in more than 22.3 million passengers who travelled through the airport in 2015. In 2016, an OAG report named Brisbane airport as the fifth-best performing large-sized airport in the world for on-time performance with 86.71% of arrivals and departures occurring within 15 minutes of their scheduled times, slipping from 88.31% the year before.
Brisbane Airport is a major hub for Virgin Australia, and a secondary hub for both Qantas and its low cost subsidiary Jetstar. Tigerair Australia also opened a base at Brisbane Airport on 11 March 2014. Brisbane has the third highest number of domestic connections in Australia following Sydney and Melbourne. It is also home to Qantas' A330 and B737 heavy maintenance facilities. Virgin Australia has a smaller maintenance facility at the Airport, where line-maintenance on the Airline's 737 fleet is performed. Other airlines, namely QantasLink, and Alliance Airlines also conduct maintenance at their respective facilities 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.
Brisbane's first airport was Eagle Farm Airport that was built in 1925 on former agricultural land in the suburb of Eagle Farm located 6 km (3.7 mi) north-east of Brisbane or 5 km (3.1 mi) south-west of Brisbane Airport's Domestic Terminal. Although Qantas started operations there in 1926, most of the flights in Brisbane operated at the Archerfield Airport, which contained a superior landing surface. While in operation, Charles Kingsford Smith landed there on 9 June 1928, after completing the first trans-pacific flight in his Fokker F.VII, the Southern Cross. There is now a museum containing the original aircraft, along with a memorial located within the Brisbane Airport precinct.
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