Brisbane airport expansion deferred as arrivals drop
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Work on an AU$700 milliondomestic terminal expansion and a AU$1 billion parallel runway were due forcompletion by 2015 but are likely now to be pushed back by several years. BrisbaneAirports Corporation (BAC) spokesperson, Jim Carden, said the airport hadexperienced years of 17% growth in visitor numbers, but arrivals had fallen toalmost zero growth.
“There’s been a softening of the market since, probably, two-thirds of the waythrough last year,” Carden was quoted saying. “Whether we’re going to do it isnot an issue - it’s going to happen, but what the last six months or so haveshown is, there’s been a softening of passenger numbers and as a result thedemand, as in the need for new gates, new aerobridges, new runways, et cetera,gets pushed out proportionately.
Carden added that the delay would likely mean the domestic terminal expansionwould be completed in 2014 instead of 2012. The new parallel runway could beput back from a completion date of 2015 to 2018, depending on demand.
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