Brisbane Airport CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2023
Brisbane Airport CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2023 in Brisbane about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Gert-Jan de Graaff:At Brisbane Airport, we see the recovery well underway at this moment in time. In the last few years, we saw the recovery of the domestic markets to almost 100%, but in the last few months, especially international carriers are back at Brisbane Airport, and that is a great feeling and a great thing to experience. In our view, that's just proof of the attractiveness of the market and of the ambition of our state government in combination with the airports and tourism attraction organisations willing to invest in the restart of airlines at Brisbane Airport. The last week at Brisbane Airport was amazing. So we announced only a few days ago that China Southern Airlines will operate daily flights in this high season coming. Yesterday we announced that Chinese airlines will come back as well with daily flights. So it's great momentum and very important to see that the Chinese mainland airlines have, have refound and rediscovered the attractiveness of the market here in Brisbane. It's incredibly important not only for the airport but for the whole state. This means that China, which was historically the most important inbound tourism market for our state, is back with about the same number of seats as we had prior to COVID. For a lot of cities, a lot of cities are talking about that their best time is behind them. For Brisbane, that's absolutely not the case. For Brisbane, the next 9 years will be an amazing opportunity to position us on the world map as a global destination due to the fact that we will have the Olympics and Paralympics in 2032. An amazing opportunity to tell people what Brisbane is all about and why people should come here to visit, to work, and maybe even to live. Great momentum, great opportunity. For the airport as such, it means obviously that we need to prepare ourselves for what's coming in 2032, and we're well underway with planning for a lot of infrastructure, including a brand new terminal. Thank you.
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