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NQ captured on film20 Feb 2015Tablelands Advertiser, Mareeba QLD, General News
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THE Tablelands will get a look-in when 10 especially chosen passionate travellers explore tropical NorthQueensland this month to capture their view of paradise in the bid for a $20,000 prize. Flying over theGreat Barrier Reef, white water rafting through the rainforest and a journey with an Aboriginal elder areamong the experiences being turned into films to promote the region in the Paradise Through Your Lenscampaign.
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Cairns taxi drivers have vowed to fight a proposed passenger drop off fee being ...23 Feb 2015 8:01 AMRadio 4KZ, Innisfail, 08:00 Rural Northern News
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Cairns taxi drivers have vowed to fight a proposed passenger drop off fee being considered by the Cairns Airport management.The cab authority is saying that the proposed drop off fee will increase fares and will result in passenger resistance and a dropin revenue. Airport management has not ruled out charging all motorists dropping off passengers.
Interview with Noel Beitzel, Taxi owner and driver, to talk about the drop-off fee at Cairns ...23 Feb 2015 11:11 AM4CA AM, Cairns, John Mackenzie, John MacKenzie
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Interview with Noel Beitzel, Taxi owner and driver, to talk about the drop-off fee at Cairns Airport. MacKenzie mentions anarticle from the [Cairns] Post that says taxi drivers and other motorists may be slugged with a drop-off fee at Cairns Airport.MacKenzie mentions that the proposal is under consideration, although airport CEO, Kevin Brown insists that no final decisionhas been made. MacKenzie also mentions that Mr Brown would not be drawn on whether the airport was considering chargingall motorists dropping off passengers, which is the case at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland. MacKenzie further mentions thatLayne Gardiner, Cairns Taxis, was not happy about the proposal but it seemed inevitable. MacKenzie mentions that Gardinersaid that it would add another 15 to 20 per cent to fares and would have to be paid by passengers. MacKenzie says thatBeitzel said that he will fight the new fee. Beitzel says that the dropping off is terrible. Beitzel says that in the end the generalpublic will be affected so they have to make a move on this. MacKenzie mentions that Warren Entsch had said that they aregoing to hook up from the Esplanade boardwalk right along up to the airport.
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Noel Beitzel, Taxi owner and driver
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Captain Active has been named the newest ambassador for the Townsville Airport's ...23 Feb 2015 7:14 PMWIN Townsville, Townsville, WIN News, Samantha Heathwood
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Captain Active has been named the newest ambassador for the Townsville Airport's 2.5km Hero Run. Luke Wilson, CaptainActive, says he's passionate about encouraging young children to lead active lives.
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Luke Wilson, Captain Active
Skyride cableway backers eager for government talks24 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Andrew Potts
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THE controversial $100 million Skyride cableway proposed for the Hinterland is still alive, with its backershoping to meet with the new Palaszczuk Government. The project has been on ice since it was revealedlate last year and was expected to have little chance of being approved by Labor. Labor, then inopposition, was critical of the project because of its links to Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens, who is apartner.
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Virgin springs into flight action24 Feb 2015Centralian Advocate, Alice Springs NT, General News, Feli Forth
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BUSINESS leaders are hoping the economy will be flying high with the arrival of Virgin Australia in AliceSprings next month. The company has already announced employment opportunities will be available,with several baggage handling positions.
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Airlines looking up01 Apr 2015Aviation Business, National, General News
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It's not all rosy in our airline scene but things are looking better than they have for a while. Denise McNabbREGIONAL EXPRESS (Rex) deputy chair John Sharp didn't mince words when he told shareholders at itsannual meeting in November that Australia's airlines were operating in one of the most toxic environmentsthe country had ever seen.
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Australia's airports: a mixed bag01 Apr 2015Aviation Business, National, General News
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EVERY CAPITAL city airport in Australia is either beginning, progressing or fin ishing major infrastructureupgrades to cope with expected demand over the next 20 years, by the end of which overall nationalpassenger numbers will have doubled, and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports are each expectedto be processing more than 50 million passengers per year. But while the major capital city airports beginconstruction, there are issues for Australia's secondary and regional airports, which, in some cases, seemore aircraft movements per year than their larger cousins. Legacy infrastructure, larger and moreaircraft, the pressure to grow and expand and participation in a new regulatory environment have allpresented their challenges.
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Airshow 2015 A truly global event01 Apr 2015Aviation Business, National, General News
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Airshow 2015: Participating companies appear to be bullish about this year's Australian InternationalAirshow - and there's something on offer for everyone. Dous Nancarrow
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FNQ captured on filmTHE Tablelands will get a look-in when 10 especially chosen passionate travellers explore tropical North Queensland this month to capture their view of paradise in the bid for a $20,000 prize.
Flying over the Great Barrier Reef, white water rafting through the rainforest and a journey with an Aboriginal elder are among the experiences being turned into films to promote the region in the Paradise Through Your Lens campaign.
Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ) chief executive officer Alex de Waal said this was the third instalment of the destination’s paradise-themed marketing initiatives, led by Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) in partnership with TTNQ and Qantas.
“The enthusiastic travellersfrom around Australia, the United States, Canada, France and New Zealand have been invited to explore the length and breadth of Tropical North Queensland in their quest to film our destination’s captivating stories,” Mr de Waal said.
“Their journeys include theSavannah Way, Port Douglas, the Daintree and Cape Tribulation rainforest, Cairns, Palm Cove and the northern beaches, Cooktown and Laura,
Green Island, the Great Barrier Reef, the Atherton Tablelands and the Cassowary Coast.
“Action-packed itinerarieshave been created from February 14 to March 5.”
A panel of tourism and marketing executives would review, their films and the person with the most captivating story will win a prize worth $20,000.
Filmmaker and photo-grapher from Wanaka, New Zealand, Ross Mackay has packed up his family and is bringing them along for the journey.
They will travel across theTablelands next week.
The family will hit the roadin a four-wheel-drive camper traversing the land, water and forests of the region.
Mr de Waal said people around the world can view the 10 films on ExploreTNQ.com.au, social media, in print and via television commercials in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane promoting Qantas deals.
He said the footage will appear in four of Queensland’s key international markets — New Zealand, the US, Europe and the UK.
TEQ CEO Leanne Coddington said “Paradise Through Your Lens” would
connect potential visitors with Tropical North Queensland like never before.
“This campaign will showcase the destination’s incredible natural beauty and
adventurous visitor experiences through the eyes of travellers from around the world,” she said.
For more information visitExploreTNQ.com.au
Shawn and Ellie Lowe will aim to capture the beauty of Tropical North Queensland through a camera lens in a bid to win a $20,000 prize. Picture: Supplied
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20 Feb 2015Tablelands Advertiser, Mareeba QLD
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Skyride cableway backers eager for government talksANDREW POTTS
THE controversial $100 mil-lion Skyride cableway pro-posed for the Hinterland is stillalive, with its backers hopingto meet with the new Pal-aszczuk Government.
The project has been on icesince it was revealed late lastyear and was expected to havelittle chance of being approvedby Labor. Labor, then in oppo-sition, was critical of the pro-
ject because of its links toMermaid Beach MP Ray Stev-ens, who is a partner.
However Skyride chairmanTerry Jackman is optimisticabout its future and said it wasfar from dead.
“It is still before the Gov-ernment after the applicationwas submitted late last year,”he said. “We have had no
discussions with the newGovernment but we are keento seek a meeting once theyare ready because we arehappy to talk about it.
“Obviously this is a differ-ent government.
“But it is a great project fortourism on the Gold Coast.”
If approved, the 9km GoldCoast Skyride would run froma privately owned site onSpringbrook Rd and have fourstops before its mountaintopstation at The Settlement.
The route, offering scenicviews of the Hinterland, LittleNerang and Hinze dams andthe Gold Coast, is similar to theNaturelink cableway proposalthat failed to eventuate in 1998.
The towers used for the sys-tem are expected to be loweredinto the Springbrook Nationalpark by helicopter to minimisedisturbance to nature.
Gold Coast Tourism BossMartin Winter said the Hinter-land was an untapped resourcefor the region.
“The Hinterland is an uncutdiamond which needs betteraccess,” he said.
If approved, the consortiumbehind the project expectedpassenger numbers wouldreach 800,000 a year.
Skyride chairman Terry Jackman and CEO Terry Moore remain optimistic about the project. Picture: DAVID CLARK
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24 Feb 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD
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Virgin springs into flight actionFelicity Forth
BUSINESS leaders are hopingthe economy will be flyinghigh with the arrival of VirginAustralia in Alice Springs nextmonth.
The company has alreadyannounced employment op-portunities will be available,with several baggage handlingpositions.
Oceania Aviation has beencontracted to manage the bag-gage and handling contract forall Virgin Australia’s AliceSprings flights.
The ground handling servi-ces company currently serviceseight regional airport through-out Australia and the Pacific,
including Ayers Rock, Ballina,Brisbane, Coffs Harbour, GoldCoast, Hervey Bay, Newcastleand Weipa.
NT Chamber of CommerceCentral Australia executive of-ficer Kay Eade said Virginwould bring much more to thetown than just baggage hand-ling jobs.
“There will be jobs at theVirgin lounge and increasedbusiness for other airport busi-nesses and beyond,” she said.
Ms Eade said another air-line servicing Alice Springswas good news all round.
“It’s great for the town. Wefound that once Tiger leftthere was a great big hole inthe tourism market,” she said.
“Hopefully, Virgin willmake travelling to CentralAustralia more affordable.”
From March 30, Virgin willoperate three direct servicesbetween Alice Springs and Ad-elaide on Mondays, Wednes-days and Thursdays.
The new schedule will use176-seat Boeing 737-800 air-craft, which include wirelessin-flight entertainment for allpassengers.
Business Class customersand eligible Velocity memberswill have access to Virgin’s Ad-elaide lounge and the upcom-ing Alice Springs lounge.
Virgin ticket from AliceSprings to Adelaide are al-ready on sale.
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Airlines looking upIt's not all rosy in ourairline scene but thingsare looking better thanthey have for a while.Denise McNabb
REGIONAL EXPRESS (Rex) deputy chairJohn Sharp didn't mince words whenhe told shareholders at its annual
meeting in November that Australia's airlineswere operating in one of the most toxic envi-ronments the country had ever seen.
Rex had just reported a 44.9 per cent fallin annual profit of $7.7 million, but Sharpwasn't just reflecting on tough times in thecarrier's own regional patch.
It had done comparatively well in a cli-mate that saw major carrier Qantas recorda $2.84 billion loss for the financial yearafter one-off costs and writedowns, includ-ing a $ll6m loss on its Jetstar operations.
Virgin Australia recorded a $355.6 mil-lion after-tax annual loss, including a largehit from its 60 per cent stake in Tigerair - itlater bought the shares it didn't own for adollar off Singapore Airlines.
The demise of carriers Brindabellaand Vincent Aviation Australia In Rex'sregional back yard was due largely to anoversupplied market and downturn infly-in, fly out (FIFO) services for the re-sources industry.
The receivership of Cairns-based Sky-trans in January suggests that the fall-outin the regional airline business may notyet be over.
Some like Queensland air charter com-pany Alliance Aviation, aspecialist in fly-in, fly-out(FIFO) transportation tothe mining and energycompanies, is diversifyingto try and keep ahead ofthe game.
With its customershard hit by a downturn incommodity prices it an-nounced to the AustralianStock Exchange recentlya $45 million writedownin the carrying value of its fleet.
It lowered its profit guidance by 38 percent and told shareholders it would not bepaying a half-year dividend.
Tourism now looks like it might be itssaviour, chief executive Scott McMillan saidin January the airline had secured a four-
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year contract with US-based family-ownedtour operator Tauck to provide two aircraftfor its tours in Australia and New Zealand.
Last year airlines also suffered the big-gest loss in the history of domestic aviationas a consequence of Virgin and Qantas'scapacity dogfight causing a seat glut.
Margins on international routes weresqueezed as Australian and foreign airlinesjostled for market share; new alliances wereforged to streamline costs, the Australianeconomy softened and the dollar fell sharply
against the US greenbackand continues to tumble.
.in spite of tur-bulent times,
it is business asusual.
Blue skies aheadNow, after a moribund2014 skies have finallybegun to look sunnier forairlines as the cost of oilhits its lowest level in sixyears thanks to a heatedprice war between OPECcountries and the US inthe wake of an oil frack-
ing frenzy in the US leading to oversupply.The price of crude has fallen from around
US$103 in July last year to under $50 a barrel.In January ratings agency Moody's In-
vestors Services predicted globally airlineswould lift profits by 12-14 per cent thisyear (compared to 8.5-9.5 per cent last year)
because of up to US$35 billion in windfallsgained through lower fuel costs.
But while some savings could be passedon to customers it expected debt reduc-tion and increased returns for shareholdersmight be a priority for many.
"We expect airlines in the mature mar-kets of the US, Australia and, to a lesser de-gree, Europe to continue to balance capac-ity growth with passenger demand as partof their quest to earn acceptable financialreturns," Moody's said.
It has maintained stable ratings for bothQantas and Virgin on the back of antici-pated stable outlooks for both.
Most analysts have begun the New Yeartalking up Qantas and Virgin Australiashares as buys.
But Australian carriers are keeping rela-tively tight-lipped about levels and time-frames that they have fuel hedged and howmuch they are able to reap from the cheap-er fuel prices.
Analysts say Qantas is in a good hedg-ing position with around 70 per cent of itsfuel hedged at the lower end of prices forthe coming six months and the balance athigher prices while Virgin is understood tohave about 72 per cent of its fuel hedged athigher prices for the first half of the year.
When oil was around US$60 a barrel an-alysts at Macquarie Group estimated Qan-
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tas would save $462 million in fuel costs in2014-15, all but $30 million of which wouldbe in the second half.
Another plus this year for airlines is theabolition of the carbon tax.
"We believe Australian aviation is in afruitful position to benefit from the easingfuel prices and from the capacity rationali-sation initiatives taken over the last twoquarters to match demand," Deutsche Banksaid in one of its first reports for 2015.
"However, a lower Australian dollar willoffset some of the gains from lower fuel aswell as impact demand for outbound travel.The benefits from lower fuel prices shouldoutweigh any negative impacts though."
In January Virgin Australia decided itwould stop separating out its $680 of fuelsurcharges on its US route, the only route itdoes this on.
It will add it to its base US fares. As atrade-off for this change it announced a $40discount in economy class and $50 on busi-ness class flights on the route.
With agents earning commissions on basefares and frequent flyers able to buy fuel sur-charges with points, Qantas soon followedsuit. It announced an unspecified timeframeto gradually absorb fuel surcharges into thebase fare, starting with frequent flyer re-demption on the charges with Qantas andJetstar Classic Awards of $110 in economyclass and $130 in premium economy.
Qantas reprieveQantas chief executive Alan Joyce an-nounced shortly before Christmas thatthe airline was on target to produce an
underlying pre-tax profit of around $350million for the first half, a quantum leapfrom the $252 million loss in the sameperiod last year and from its total loss of$2.84 billion (reduced to a $644m lossafter taking off one one off losses andwritedowns for the historic cost of air-craft purchased at a much lower Austra-lian dollar exchange rate).
The rapid turnaround comes less thana year after the airline, then derogatorilynamed the "dying kangaroo" pressed thefederal government for help to save it frompossible extinction and after it savagely ac-cused Virgin of predatory behaviour drivenby its other airline shareholders.
Qantas's brutal cost-cutting over athree-year program that has earmarked5000 jobs to disappear and routes stream-lined or cut, along with a truce with Vir-gin over its capacity war, has seen theQantas share price rise by around 80 percent since October.
The federal government's response toJoyce's plea was to relax parts of the Qa-ntas Sales Act, lifting foreign ownershipstakes in Qantas from 25 per cent for indi-vidual investors and 35 per cent for a for-eign-owned airline to 49 per cent, keepingQantas majority Australian owned, owner-ship rising 49 per cent.
As a result, Qantas now plans to sepa-rate domestic and international operationsinto separate companies (they were re-structured into separate operations in May2012) in the hope of luring a foreign inves-tor into its international business.
But details of how and when it will do
this are still sketchy; and we are still to seeif there is any interest from foreign carriers.
Contrary to much speculation last year,it managed to hold on to its lucrative fre-quent flyer loyalty program, estimated byMacquarie and Citi analysts to be wortharound $2.5 billion.
Virgin comebackVirgin Australia also expects to be back in theblack in 2015 and has forecast Tigerair willbreak even by the end of next financial year.
It sold a 35 per cent minority stake inits Velocity Frequent Flying program inAugust to fund manager Affinity EquityPartners, giving the program an enterprisevalue of $960 million.
At Virgin's annual meeting in Novem-ber chief executive John Borghetti reiter-ated to shareholders the effects of weak-ening consumer sentiment and economicuncertainty.
Virgin chairman Neil Chatfield an-nounced in October he would be retiringfrom the airline, but would stay on until achairman was found to replace him.
A search for his replacement is still in tow.
CaveatsIn spite of an improving health card forthe Australian aviation sector there arestill caveats - the Australian dollar be-ing one.If it falls too far against the US dollar -the prime currency of aviation fuel, thengains made on tumbling fuel prices willbe diminished.But the flip side of a cheaper dollar isthe country's attraction as a destinationfor international visitors.
Chinese carriers have also signalled theyintend to ramp up services to Australia. Theirquest got a boost when the federal govern-ment lifted a cap on the number of passen-gers Chinese airlines are able to bring to Aus-tralia by 18 per cent in January.
That will see the previous cap of 18,029weekly one-way seats in certain periodslift to 33,500 seats.
It paves the way not only for the major carri-ers, but also for second-tier airlines to enter themarket from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhouto Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.
Deutsche Bank analysts noted in itsJanuary report that Qantas was vulnerableto crude oil and jet fuel refiner marginsincreasing, market share diminishing, ca-pacity growth and yield dilution, adverseinterest rate and currency fluctuations, in-dustrial action that could ground the air-line, and its ability to execute its growthstrategy for Jetstar, particularly in interna-tional markets.
And there are the usual economic and glob-al catastrophe risks airlines face continually.
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The key downside risks for Virgin, it said,included its inability to continue executionof its strategy to improve profitability andmaintaining an on-time flying performancein the Australian domestic market - criticalto Virgin's corporate accounts.
In November Qantas and Japan Airlinesannounced they had provided an equity in-jection to troubled Jetstar Japan operationsof around A$114 million in the form of non-voting shares, equally owned by the twomajor shareholders.
The aim was to support Jetstar's Japangrowth, including the launch of interna-tional operations, expected early this year.
It started its domestic operations in Ja-pan in 2012.
Qantas has also recently revamped itsexecutive team.
WellcampOne bright star on the aviation horizon wasthe opening in November of the Wagnerfamily-owned Brisbane West Wellcamp Air-port, 17km from Toowoomba, in November,the first privately owned airport in 50 years.
Qantas SkyLink became its first com-mercial customer.
And in October Rex won a tender issuedby the Queensland Government to keep twoexisting regional routes along with three otherroutes, two of them through the new airport
Aircraft developmentsSeveral airlines introduced the new Dream-liner Boeing 787 aircraft into the Austra-lian market last year, including Air NewZealand, United Airlines, Qantas/Jetstarand Qatar Airways.
Singapore low-cost carrier Scoot alsoplans to use Dreamliners on its Perth, Syd-ney and Gold Coast routes by April 2015.
Qantas has announced a rollout of itsnew business class seat on domestic andinternational Airbus A330 jets.
They first appeared on flights from Syd-ney, Melbourne and Brisbane to Singaporein mid-January.
"We want to focus on getting good pen-etration into Singapore, and then as we getmore (upgraded) aircraft we'll focus on otherAsian destinations and Honolulu" said KylieMorris, Qantas' head of customer experience.
Aviation alliances also continues to develop.
Travel climateThe International Air Transport Association(IATA) cautioned in its latest report thatwhile the outlook for international air travelremained positive overall, a recent slow-down in major economies like China andthe Eurozone, and concerns over the spreadof the Ebola virus, could place downwardpressure on demand in coming months.
"The sharp increase in airline share prices
in the last quarter of 2014 reflects continueddecline in crude oil and jet fuel prices," it said.
"Moreover, although growth in worldtrade has been supportive of business-re-lated air travel over recent months, gradualeasing in business confidence since mid-2014 suggests the improvements in inter-national trade could be limited. "
The latest Australian domestic aviationfigures available for November show therewere 5.01 million passengers carried, includ-ing charter operations, down 1.4 per centon November 2013- The 56,442 aircraft tripswere down 2.3 per cent on November 2013.
But the 57.57 million passengers for theyear to November was an increase of 0.3per cent, compared with the year endingNovember 2013.
With the Australian dollar expected to hov-er below 80 cents against the US dollar andcheaper airfares on the back of cheaper fuelprices inbound visitors are expected to rise.
Late last year Tourism Australia and VirginAustralia announced plans to increase the val-ue of their three-year marketing partnershipto $20 million making it the largest airlinepartnership it has with both parties jointlyspending more than $10 million during thisyear promoting Australia to leisure travellersin the United States and New Zealand.
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Australia's airports: a mixed bag
Australia's secondary metropolitan airports support aviation industry of all kinds, from Execujet's business jetfixed base operation here at Essendon Airport to flying schools and maintenance companies.
Australia is in the middle ofan unprecedented level ofdevelopment in its majorcapital city airports, with morethan $9 billion planned forinfrastructure and upgradesover the next decade.Philip Smart
EVERY CAPITAL city airport in Australiais either beginning, progressing or fin-ishing major infrastructure upgrades
to cope with expected demand over thenext 20 years, by the end of which overallnational passenger numbers will have dou-bled, and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbaneairports are each expected to be processingmore than 50 million passengers per year.
But while the major capital city airportsbegin construction, there are issues for Aus-tralia's secondary and regional airports,which, in some cases, see more aircraftmovements per year than their larger cous-ins. Legacy infrastructure, larger and moreaircraft, the pressure to grow and expandand participation in a new regulatory envi-ronment have all presented their challenges.
Metro Airports in the spotlightWhile the role and value of major capitalcity airports is mostly understood by the
general public, our secondary metropolitanairports have not been so lucky.
Unlike major airports with airline ser-vices, the average citizen may have little ornothing to do with a metropolitan airport,which historically has led to communitiesmisunderstanding and undervaluing theirrole and creating vociferous opposition toexpansion and development.
But according to the Australian AirportsAssociation's paper, "Securing the Futureof Australia's Metropolitan Airports", re-leased in November 2014, our metropoli-tan airports can be busier than their majorcounterparts in terms of movements, andprovide vital support activities that for op-erational or cost reasons simply couldn't beplaced on a capital city's major airport.
"While most of Australia's Metro Air-ports do not currently provide many RPTservices to the travelling public, they arestill among the busiest airports in the coun-try in terms of aviation activity," the reportstates. "In 2013-14, three of the top fourbusiest airports in Australia (in terms of air-craft movements) were Metro Airports. Thishighlights the important role these airportsplay in providing facilities for flight trainingschools, recreational and private charteredaircraft services, as well as a base for manyaerial emergency services providers."
The figures may surprise. There are moregeneral aviation (GA) aircraft movements inAustralia than there are RPT movements.Airservices Australia figures for 2013-14recorded a total of 3,046,454 civilian air-
craft movements of which 1,771,700 or 58.2per cent were by helicopters or aircraft ofless than seven tonnes maximum take-offweight. And while the entire AustralianRPT fleet comprises around 300 aircraft,Moorabbin Airport and Jandakot Airporteach regularly have more than that numbercalling the airfield home.
While the primary capital city airportsmay host the vast majority of Australia'sRegular Public Transport (RPT) air pas-senger traffic and the largest aircraft, theyare not necessarily the busiest airports inthe country. It's no surprise that Airser-vices Australia numbers show that SydneyAirport recorded the greatest number ofaircraft movements in 2013-14. But in thesame year Perth's Jandakot Airport and Mel-bourne's Moorabbin Airport each recordedmore movements than the next busiest pri-mary capital city airport, Brisbane Airport,which in turn recorded only 0.06 per centmore movements than Bankstown in Syd-ney. Parafield Airport recorded 39 per centmore movements than Perth, even with its"mining boom" related traffic. ArcherfieldAirport recorded 15 per cent move move-ments than Adelaide Airport. Camden Air-port recorded more movements than Dar-win Airport and Canberra Airport; andEssendon Airport recorded more move-ments than Hobart.
The report also points out that RPT air-lines do sometimes provide vital servicesto destinations such as Tasmania's King Is-land (from Moorabbin) and Flinders Island,Hamilton, Portland and Griffith (from Es-sendon). Indeed, Essendon, Archerfield andParafield were for some time their cities' pri-mary airports, often providing vital wartimebases for Australian and allied aircraft andbeing superseded by purpose-built facilitiesonly when the jet age ushered in the needfor longer runways, larger facilities, and air-fields positioned further away (at the time)from major population centres.
And even though the Metro Airportsmay not see great numbers of arriving anddeparting RPT passengers, they do enablea wide range of other aviation activity thatis of vital significance. Private, corporate,recreational and sports aviation activity iscentred around the Metro Airports ratherthan primary capital city airports, and theyare more likely to house aeromedical, agri-cultural, charter and aerial surveying, pho-tography and other airborne work.
With their proximity to capital cities andaccess to that airspace, they are also idealfor pilot training facilities, housing morethan 60 schools with a total of more than
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2600 students enrolled at any one time.Metropolitan airports also serve as indus-
try parks for aviation related businesses need-ing access to a runway. And in that they are asignificant employer. Essendon Airport is byfar the largest "employer" in this regard, with170 on-airport aviation-related businesses em-ploying 4200 people. But Bankstown's 1300employees and Moorabbin's 1100 still makethe aviation industry a sizeable employer forwhat are essentially suburban communities.
But metropolitan airports have had theirshare of challenges, particularly since the Fed-eral Airports Corporation began selling leasesto private enterprise in the 1990s. On-airportbusinesses faced with the realities of a privatelandlord found costs increased markedly.
"During Federal Airports Corporation (FAC)ownership of the airports, many GA tenantshad come to view its previous long-term leasearrangements as a reliable indicator of futurecosts," states the AAA white paper. "Howeverthe privatisation of secondary airports hasresulted in GA operators being exposed toa commercial reality, not experienced underthe previous system of government owner-ship, reflecting the fact that former FAC rentswere effectively being subsidised by the gov-ernment. This exposed vulnerabilities in thebusiness models of many GA businesses thathad not been evident previously."
The more recent introduction of MasterPlans and prescribed public consultation,has also created challenges.
"Metro Airports must comply with thesame Commonwealth planning laws andrequirements as those that apply at the farmore significant primary capital cities," theAAA says. "Compliance with these require-ments is very expensive and imposes a dis-proportionately and very heavy burden onMetro Airports than it does on the much,much larger primary capital city airports."
Requirements such as the need to pro-duce a new Master Plan every five years,and needing each plan to be a complete re-write instead of an update have contributedto resourcing issues. Operators have alsotaken issue with public comment periodsbeing too long, as are time limits for the ap-
proval or rejection of Major DevelopmentPlans and Master Plans. It has been esti-mated that up to 20 per cent of some metroairports administration time has been takenup simply complying with the Airports Act.
"While the Metro Airports occupy largetracts of land in capital cities, they shouldnevertheless properly be viewed as 'small'or at best 'medium' sized businesses thatare of a significantly different scale and fi-nancial capacity to the primary capital cityairports," says the AAA report.
"The AAA is committed to working withthe Government and its relevant agencies toaddress the regulatory barriers that are im-peding the growth and efficient operation ofour Metro Airport members," said the AAA."It is critical that the Government recognisethe essential role that Metro Airports play insupporting the aviation sector and the eco-nomic development of their local communi-ties. Industry and Government must worktogether to remove these unnecessary regu-latory barriers and ensure that our Metro Air-ports can thrive and continue contributing toAustralia's social and economic prosperity."
Regional airports under pressureRegional airports too are under a constantstate of pressure from the age old enemiesincluding regulation, wear and tear and,ironically, growth.
Mildura Airport chief executive officer BillBurke said constant provision for upgradesand maintenance have blunted the rosy viewmany local councils had of the potential ofrunning their own airport when the FederalAirports Corporation began selling leases inthe 1990s. This has been compounded bygrowth in both traffic and aircraft size.
"It's close to 20 years since the local own-ership airport plan was put in place," Burkesaid. "And in that time aviation's changedmonumentally. Aircraft in the main have gotbigger, heavier, they're more frequent in andout and consequently issues pre-'96 werenothing compared with the issues of today."
He believes his own airport serves as agood example of the rolling cash injectionrequired. In 2009 Mildura spent $7.9 million
upgrading its apron and taxiways. In 2012 itbegan a $6.4 million terminal upgrade to han-dle the higher frequency and larger aircraftvisiting. And now that is finished, attention isturning to a potential $25 million runway re-furbishment. This is all in addition to the costof day to day running and the extra require-ments of handling larger aircraft.
"If anything the costs have increased,"Burke said. "With the bigger aircraft we'venow got full security. We've got the samesecurity protocols as Melbourne, Sydney,Brisbane, Perth, any of the major airports.We've got full checked bag screening, we'vegot full passenger screening, so Qantas andVirgin passengers go through the same ex-perience as they would in Melbourne.
"But what we're facing here at Mildura isan ageing runway. You can say nominallythat 15 years is about your life span on a newrunway, so the moment you put your bitu-men down you have got around 15 years toget your purse ready to pave the next one.We've got a proposal out there to resheetthe whole of the runway. But not only just toresheet it, but also to strengthen it, becausethe runway that's operating here at the mo-ment was designed for aircraft of significant-ly less weight than the Boeing 737-800s thatwe're getting in here on a regular basis."
Mildura is seven hours drive from Mel-bourne and five from Adelaide, which Burkebelieves makes it somewhat remote, but "onlyabout three out of ten on the scale when com-pared with places like Nhulunbuy and Gove".
Infrastructure requirements are even moreacute in such places, when the tyranny of dis-tance impacts the cost of building materialsand transport and may require "importing"specialist skills and equipment, and even thebitumen, to resurface a runway. Australian Air-ports Association figures suggest the cost of arunway construction or refurbishment in a re-mote location may cost up to 3.5 times as muchas that for an airport close to a capital city.
The Australian Airports Association re-port "Australia's Regional Airports: Facts,Myths and Challenges" detailed issues inthe remote north of Western Australia.
"Conducting any works above the 26th Paral-
its apronmijnal followed a $7.9 million upgrade to
mention is now turning to the main runway.
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lei comes with a significant increase in costs. Inthe Pilbara this can be in the order of up to 50per cent and in the Kimberley 30 per cent plus.
"Staffing is also a key issue. Overlays andworks on runways do not happen often atregional airports compared to capital city air-ports. In the local government environmentthe local engineer is often assigned this func-tion but is unlikely to have exposure to air-field operations and the differences in suchthings as spray rates.
"A runway is not a road. It has specificneeds and outcomes related to aircraft safetythat may not be understood.
"And finally, the risk of bitumen beingtransported 2,500km is also problematic inthat it can deteriorate over these distances."
And while Burke welcomes the New SouthWales Government's recent announcement ofa $50 million injection for regional airports,he believes the ongoing funding requirementsmake that allocation a drop in the ocean.
In 2012 Newman Airport, owned and op-erated by the Shire of East Pilbara, saw a 35per cent increase in its RPT arrivals. It hadQantas, QantasLink, Virgin, Skywest, Alli-ance, Network, Skippers and Karratha FlyingServices vying for space and introduced a slotbooking system to handle the volume.
But Newman was only able to handle this
growth because it had spent $7.6 million up-grading its terminal only three years before- and more than $28 million on capital worksat the airport since 2008.
Even away from the meteoric growth as-sociated with mining, Dubbo Airport sawa 13.5 per cent increase over the five years2005/6 to 2010/11.
But the airport had spent $9 million oncapital works since 2000/01 and has a fur-ther $14 million forecast for the 2012/13 to2021/22 period, including over $1 millionon security alone.
"Fifty million dollars sounds like a lotof money, but when you start talking aboutaviation infrastructure it doesn't go veryfar," Bill Burke said.
"It's not a case of 'build it and they willcome'. It all relates to the commercial strengthof the region, of the community.
"Mildura, for whatever reason, despitethe 10-year drought that they experienced,despite the downturn in agriculture, Mildu-ra's aviation growth has been straight linefive per cent since 1993."
Burke believes regional airports shouldallocate funds from their own pocketsand that of the local government organ-isation owner, but they will always needState and Federal funding and should be
seen as part of vital national infrastructure."Places like Mildura, we are an airport
of regional significance. For instance, whenthe fires were on in South Australia just re-cently, we had firebombers, three iterationsof Elvis, coming through the place to go toAdelaide. It would be difficult for them toland or to make that journey if there wasn'ta place like Mildura enroute.
"And it's the same with the RAAF, we getthe Roulettes in here all the time, we get Her-cules. We get the Blackhawk helicopters, weget the Sea King helicopters. We get a lot ofmilitary traffic through the place because it'sa handy place to refuel.
"The responsibility for maintaining that ca-pability really should go back to some level ofFederal support. And I don't think with eitherpersuasion that there's a particularly healthyappetite to support regional aviation generally.
"Now I think there has to be some recogni-tion that regional aviation is critical to Austra-lia. Why did the Department of Civil Aviationin years gone by set up all of these little air-ports around the country?
"Because aviation was the only way youcould effectively get around from point topoint over long distances because the roadswere no good, cars weren't that good. Andplanes were the solution." Q
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irshow 2015:
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Participating companies appear to be bullish aboutthis year's Australian International Airshow - andthere's something on offer for everyone.
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Avalon 2015
Airservices on showAirservices Australia is well prepared foranother big airshow and trade event at thisyear's Australian International Airshow atAvalon, Victoria, where the air navigationservice provider will showcase new towertechnology and engage with the aviationindustry on sustainable aviation and har-monised airspace.
As a major sponsor of the biennial air-show, Airservices will have on show an In-tegrated Tower Automation Suite (INTAS)console at its stand inside exhibition Hall1. INTAS features four large touch screensdisplaying to tower controllers essential in-tegrated communications and flight data.INTAS is already installed in Airservicesnew control towers at Broome, Rockhamp-ton, Melbourne and Adelaide airports withthe technology soon to be installed in ex-isting control towers at the Gold Coast,Perth, Cairns and Brisbane.
Also on the stand with be a tower visualsimulator used to train air traffic control-lers at Airservices Learning Academy atMelbourne Airport.
Airservices will be displaying one of its avi-ation rescue fire fighting Mk7 ultra-large firefighting vehicles with the chance for the pub-lic to see if they have what it takes to becomean elite aviation fire fighter. The Mk7, one of90 in service at the busiest airports around thecountry, will be on display adjacent to Hall 3.
Defence may notdominate theflightlineasmuchasit has in the past.
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The AustralianInternationalAerospace Congress
The AIAC series is the pre-eminentaerospace forum in the region and isheld in conjunction with the AustralianInternational Airshow in Avalon.
The 16th in the series, AIAC16 hasbeen organized to provide significanttechnical and business opportunitiesfor aerospace professionalsworldwide, but particularly for thosein the Australasian region.
AIAC16 will be held over four days,with the first two days comprisingwritten paper presentations at theMelbourne Convention Centre on23=24 February. The second part ofthe Congress will be ApplicationTechnology presentations out at theAirshow itself on 25-26 February.
The theme for this year's Congressis Multinational Aerospace Programs:Benefits and Challenges.
Further details are at www.aiacl6.com/index.php/program/
As part of its commitment to reduceaviation's impact on the environment,Airservices will host the International Sus-tainable Aviation Forum on day one of theairshow. Hosted by Airservices ExecutiveGeneral Manager Safety, Environment andAssurance, Dr Rob Weaver, the forum willdiscuss a range of topics from the develop-ments of alternative aviation fuels, analy-sis of operational data tosupport air traffic man-agement efficiency to air-craft noise complaints.
On day two, Airserviceswill update the industryon its OneSKY Australiaprogram to harmonisecivil and military air trafficmanagement. AirservicesExecutive General Man-ager Future Service Deliv-ery Jason Harfield, alongwith representatives from the Department ofDefence, will discuss the key benefits of theprogram for airspace users.
Behind the scenes Airservices air trafficcontrollers, aviation rescue fire fighters andcommunication technicians will again beplaying a key role to ensure the flying dis-plays work safely and efficiently with sched-uled Jetstar flights servicing Avalon Airport
TAE will targetJSF support
throughout the week and the busy generalaviation airfield set up at Avalon East.
TAE bullish for 2015"We've found scheduling meetings for all oursuppliers and customers works better for us,"said TAE General Manager Andrew Sand-erson. "We've got four people going downthere though and probably two going to the
Health and Usage Monitor-ing conference at the sametime. So we'll end up hav-ing six TAE people downthere for the Show to getgood engagement withour key suppliers.
"This year will be forus a bit of a focus on JSFsustainment, what do weactually do with that andhow do we get involvedin that. So I want to make
sure that we're in front of people and posi-tioning ourselves as well as we can to be inthat role into the future.
So to me that's what the general intent is.There's a few organised meetings around someof the other conferences but generally it's goingto be the network process through our suppli-ers and customers, to understand what JSF sus-tainment might be in the long term.
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Avalon 2015
"From a TAE point of view,we've got a really promising yearcoming up. A couple of major customers'activities are about to kick off for us sothat's fantastic. Expanding into Asia, this isthe regional Asian show as well, so we're aworldwide exclusive for fuel control repairs,for BGA size aeroplanes. So we touch theUS, we're touching Asia, engine test cell op-portunities we're selling out through Asia.We're doing one here in Amberley at thesame time. And I think getting ready for- as JSF production ramps up some of ourmanufacturing activities for that activity isstarting to grow finally after a lot of yearsof a bit of a failure to launch; it's up andrunning and we can work and those sort ofguys, which is promising. The big one forus is how to get involved in sustainment ofthe engine in the long run.
"So I do look forward to 2015, the restof this calendar year. I think we'll go anddo the Avalon Show with a lot of optimismand promise. I think there's a few thingsgoing right for the industry right now, cer-tainly on the things that we deal with, sothat's a plus for us."
ATR to build on solid 2014The year 2014 ended for ATR beating lastyears' records in sales; deliveries, turnoverand backlog. The aircraft manufacturer'ssales increased to 160 aircraft, along with120 options, exceeding the previous 2011record (157 firm sales and 79 options).ATR also achieved a record turnover in2014, reaching 1.8 billion dollars (1.63 bil-lion in 2013), and increased its deliveriesto 83 aircraft (compared with 74 in 2013).As a result of the extraordinary commer-cial year experienced by ATR, 2014 endedwith 280 aircraft in its backlog, an end-of-year level never reached until now.
In 2014, ATR signedthe largest cumulative orderof its history, with a contract that bringsthe number of firm aircraft orders fromthe Indonesian airline Lion Air to one hun-dred. ATR also reached a major milestonein its history with the signing of the 1000thorder for the ATR 72 which will flythe flag of Airlines PNG, the PapuaNew Guinea airline.
The 160 firm sales and 120 op-tions represent nearly half the to-tal sales of regional aircraft of be-low 90-seat capacity for the year.It reinforces the position of theATR-600 as the regional aircraftof choice of airlines and leasingcompanies across the world. Forthe turboprop aircraft segment,these sales account for 80% ofall the orders for the year.
The 83 deliveries in 2014 rep-resent not only a new recordfor ATR but also an increaseof more than 60% over thelast five years (51 deliver-ies in 2010). This numberof deliveries, which ranksfirst among all below-90-seatregional aircraft deliveriesduring the last year, enablesATR to pursue one of its mainlines of development, namelythe consolidation of its pro-duction ramp-up which willcontinue in 2015 and shouldenable it to exceed the 100deliveries mark in 2016. Qj
LEFT:AirservicesAustralia isnot just aparticpantatthe Show, italso controlsthe skies forthe event.(AA)
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Hawker Pacific's big flight line
"What we've got planned for Avalonis the double studio arrangementadjacent to the static display andthe Textron display," says HawkerPacific's COO Doug Park. "And onthat static display will be a 350i,a King Air C90 GTX, a Baron G58,a Bell 407 GX, a Diamond DA40and a Diamond DA42.
"The Show is an opportunityto connect with customers andthings like that. Certainly there areoperators there and business andcorporates there, but by virtue ofthe people that you see displaying apresence there, what they're pitchingat predominantly is governments.
Government business people arethere as well to communicate withOEMs and both big industry as wellas the customers.
"In terms of an outlook there'salways this sort of two-edged swordwhen you have a fall in the Australiandollar. The fall in the Australiandollar, it's very good for our serviceindustry, it's good for our MRO andavionics business - the service sideof it. But the new aircraft sales part,every cent that the Australian dollardrops against the other currencies,including the US, makes it that littlebit harder selling aeroplanes.
"So the fall of the Australian dollar
is improving our competitiveness inthe service side of our business andthat's our MRO, our avionics business,modifications and those sort of things.
"The FBO side of the business is goingreally well over the last few months- and this is partially attributed tothe G20 but not solely - we've had ourbest ever months in terms of businessthrough the Australian FBO network.So that's good news.
"And in terms of aircraft sales weare demonstrating our confidence bythe line up of aircraft we will have atthe Show, showing overall confidencein the industry, and in supporting theAvalon Airshow."
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Safeskies to beat AirshowsDownunder on26 February 2015
The Safeskies series of biennialaviation safety conferencesare now well and truly part ofAustram's aviation calendar. Since1993 they showcased a range ofissues identified as important tothe improvement of safety; andsince 1997 focused around a theme.The theme of Safeskies 2015 is,'Training for Change'.
In addition to the biennialconferences, Safeskies has since2009 presented a morning seminarat the Airshows Downunderevents at Avalon, Victoria. Theseseminars, while still connected tothe contemporary theme, tend toapproach their topics from moreof an operational perspective, ofimmediate interest to air showattendees, than the generally morestrategically-focused papers at themain Safeskies Conferences.
The 2015 Avalon seminar will beheld on the morning of Thursday 26February from 09:15 to approx. 12:00noon. Four papers will be presented.Safeskies Director Dr Rob Lee AO,will speak on SMS: Integrating RiskManagement and Investigation, andwill be followed by SQNLDR SteveFerguson, Executive Officer of 36 SQNRAAF, on The Australian DefenceForce Aviation Safety ManagementSystem (ASMS) - turning safetyinto capability. Following a shortbreak, a USAF F22 pilot (tba) willspeak on safety aspects of flyingthe F22 Raptor, the world's mostadvanced fighter aircraft. Completingthe seminar will be Mr CameronHeathwood, AMSA, on The searchfor the missing Malaysian AirlinesB 777, Flight MH 370.
The Avalon seminar will be ofinterest to all associated withaviation to gain knowledge ofup-to-date air safety theory andtechniques, and to network withother aviation safety professionals.The 36 SQN and F22 presentationswill be of particular interest to ADFaircrew and associated personnel.More details can be obtained at www.SafeskiesAustralia.org
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