It will also put Brisbane in the best position possible to attract international major events to our great state, with the 2014 G20 Summit and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games successfully delivered during a time where Brisbane Airport was at capacity. There is no doubt that Brisbane Airport is the enabler of social, cultural and economic liveability of the city of Brisbane and the state of Queensland. With the addition of a parallel runway, the future growth and development potential for Brisbane Airport and the greater Brisbane region is exponential.īrisbane’s new runway is forecast to generate an estimated 7,800 new jobs by 2035 and an additional AUD $5 billion in annual economic benefit to the region. With the addition of a parallel runway, the future growth and development potential for Brisbane Airport and the greater Brisbane region is exponential” Enabling growth and liveabilityĪirports are synonymous with excitement, anticipation, progress, connection and new beginnings. Airports are also vital to a city’s success and growth. These issues would have amplified significantly had the new runway not been built. We also had no system redundancy to ‘catch-up’ on delays from the morning peaks or severe weather conditions, which caused a knock-on effect to on-time performance across the national network, angering passengers who expected and deserved reliable services, as well as having a financial cost to airlines and the airport. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as far back as 2012, an unprecedented increase in passenger numbers and flights started to place enormous pressure on Brisbane Airport’s runway system, which effectively was operating on only a single main runway more than 90 per cent of the time due to restrictions on the use of a smaller cross runway.Īs an ‘end of the line’ airport, we had no capacity during our peak periods, severely limiting our ability to meet the growing demand and causing the build-up of delays for passengers and airlines. While the vast majority of its true potential and benefits will be seen in the decades to come, Brisbane is already starting to reap the rewards. The final design is a nod to the legacy of the early planners in selecting a site and airfield layout that remained the best solution half a century on. In 2005, BAC commenced the planning and approval process for the BNR and, fast-forward to 12 July 2020, the visionary plan for a world-class airport featuring a widely spaced parallel runway system in Australia’s third-largest capital city finally came to fruition with BNR’s official opening. BAC retained this planning vision, with some minor improvements and tweaks, in its first two Master Plans in 19, respectively. The parallel system remained the central planning feature for future expansion in the period up to Brisbane Airport Corporation’s (BAC) purchase of Brisbane Airport in 1997. Later that year, a wide-spaced parallel runway system in a north-south alignment became part of Brisbane Airport’s ( BNE) long-term planning.
In 2005, BAC commenced the planning and approval process for the BNR and, fast-forward to 12 July 2020, the visionary plan for a world-class airport featuring a widely spaced parallel runway system in Australia’s third-largest capital city finally came to fruition”