Brisbane Airport CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2024
Brisbane Airport CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2024, in Brisbane, about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Gert-Jan de Graaff:This is a very exciting day for Brisbane Airport. Today we announced the upgrade of our international terminal. We're going to invest significant money in a very, very significant upgrade. We're going to replace our check-in desks and installing new kiosks and new backdrop units. We will relocate our security checkpoint and passport control from the current Level 3 to Level 4, and that's our check-in level, in a completely new setup, which will be really nice in the atrium, which has normal daylight and will be fantastic. And because we're able to do that, we are expanding our duty-free store and all of our retail offer. And yeah, we're so happy to be able to announce that today. The next couple of months are looking really exciting for Brisbane Airport. A few new routes have been announced, so we will see Delta Air Lines going to operate from Brisbane to LAX, which is fantastic because that's a new airline on a very important route for Brisbane Airport. We will see American Airlines starting daily flights from Dallas Dallas-Fort Worth to Brisbane Airport. There are many exciting things happening all over Southeast Asia, including expansion of Singapore Airlines and a few other airlines. Qantas is going to do more international from Brisbane, including new flights to Vanuatu, Port Vila. Yeah, we're in a very, very good period at the moment with all these fantastic announcements.
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