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Dubbo Airport
Dubbo Regional Airport is a regional airport in Dubbo, Australia. The airport is located northwest of Dubbo and is operated by the Dubbo City Council. It was known as Dubbo City Regional Airport until March 2022. History Aeroplanes began landing in Dubbo in the 1920s, though it wasn't until 1935 that land was purchased for an official airport. During World War II, the airport was reconstructed to be a military airport. The airport runway was redone by the Department of Civil Aviation in 1969, and a terminal was opened in 1970. The Dubbo City Council accepted ownership of the airport on 1 July 1970. The airport has been used for scheduled, charter, and freight services since then. In 1983, Airlines of New South Wales announced that they intended to introduce Fokker F28 Fellowship regional jets on routes to Dubbo. At that time, the Federal Government project that while there would only be a modest increase in the number of aircraft movements between 1985 and 2000, lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Dubbo
The City of Dubbo was a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Orana, New South Wales, Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The former area is located adjacent to the Mitchell Highway, Mitchell, Newell Highway, Newell, and the Golden Highway, Golden highways, the Main Western railway line, New South Wales, Main Western railway line, and the Macquarie River. A Local government areas of New South Wales#Reviews of local government areas, 2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the City of Dubbo merge with the Wellington Council to form a new council with an area of and support a population of approximately . Following an independent review, on 12 May 2016 the Minister for Local Government (New South Wales), Minister for Local Government announced the dissolution of the Dubbo City Council and the Wellington Council, together with the establishment of the Western Plains Regional Council with immediate effect. The last mayor of the Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and Tarmacadam, tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface road surface, roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures have been used in pavement construction since the nineteenth century. It consists of Construction aggregate, mineral aggregate Binder (material), bound together with bitumen (a substance also independently known as asphalt, Pitch (resin), pitch, or tar), laid in layers, and compacted. The American English terms ''asphalt'' (or ''asphaltic'') ''concrete'', ''bituminous asphalt concrete'', and ''bituminous mixture'' are typically used only in engineering and construction documents, which define concrete as any composite material composed of mineral aggregate adhered with a binder. The abbreviation, ''AC'', is sometimes used for ''asphalt concrete'' but can also denot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Albanese
Anthony Norman Albanese ( or ; born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the Leaders of the Australian Labor Party#Leader, leader of the Labor Party since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Division of Grayndler, Grayndler since 1996. Albanese was born in Sydney to an Italian father and an Australian mother, who raised him alone. Albanese attended St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney, St Mary's Cathedral College and studied economics at the University of Sydney. As a student, he joined the Labor Party and later worked as a party official and research officer before entering Parliament. Albanese was elected to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives at the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 election, winning the seat of Grayndler in New South Wales. He was first appointed to the Shadow cabinet of Australia, shadow cabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Hill Airport
Broken Hill Airport is an airport located southeast of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The airport currently is used as a base of operations for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia South-Eastern section thus making it a very important hub for this service. It is also used extensively by the mining industry. Airlines and destinations Statistics Broken Hill Airport was ranked 51st in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2009–2010. Refers to "Regular Public Transport (RPT) operations only" See also * List of the busiest airports in Australia *List of airports in New South Wales This is an incomplete list of airports in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of New South Wales. __TOC__ List of airports The list is sorted by the name of the community served, click the sort buttons in the table header ... References Airports in New South Wales Buildings and structures in Broken Hill, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Airlines
Rex Airlines Pty Ltd is an Australian regional airline based in Mascot, New South Wales. It operates scheduled regional services using turboprop aircraft. Between 2021 and 2024, Rex also operated jet services between selected major Australian cities. In July 2024, it collapsed and was placed into voluntary administration. It is the primary subsidiary of Regional Express Holdings, itself predominantly foreign-owned by Singaporean businessman Lim Kim Hai and Hong Kong investment firm PAG. Rex is Australia's second-largest regional airline by number of regional destinations, serving 45 regional destinations, behind QantasLink, who serve 55 regional destinations across Australia. On the night of 30 July 2024, the airline ceased all bookings for domestic jet service routes to capital cities and fell into voluntary administration, appointing joint administrators from Ernst & Young. It came one day after Rex stopped trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), amid fears the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Airport
Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport — colloquially Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney Airport or Mascot Airport — is an international airport serving Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district, in the suburb of Mascot. It is the primary airport serving Sydney and is the main hub for Qantas, the flagship airline of Australia, as well as a hub for Virgin Australia and an operating base for Jetstar. Situated next to Botany Bay on 907 hectares (2,241 acres) of land with three runways, Sydney Airport is one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports and is the busiest airport in Australia, handling 41.4 million passengers and 348,904 aircraft movements in 2024 and 2017, respectively. Currently, 46 domestic and 43 international destinations are served to Sydney directly, having been the 48th busiest airport in the world in 2022. In 2018, the airport was rated in the top five worldwide for airports handling 40–50 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QantasLink
QantasLink is a full-service, Regional airline, regional brand of Australian flag carrier airline Qantas. As of 2024, QantasLink provides over 2,000 flights each week to 65 metropolitan, regional and remote destinations across Australia, as well as short-haul international services to the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and East Timor. Flights are operated by the Qantas owned subsidiaries of Eastern Australia Airlines, National Jet Systems, Network Aviation and Sunstate Airlines, with Embraer E190s Aircraft lease, wet-leased from Alliance Airlines. QantasLink is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance. History QantasLink's origins as a single brand for Qantas' regional airline subsidiaries go back to October 1993, when Qantas acquired Australian Airlink Pty Ltd and its fleet from parent company National Jet Systems, which up to that point had been operating flights on major regional routes for Trans Australia Airlines, Australian Airlines. The Australian Airlink nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport , known locally as Tullamarine Airport, is an international airport serving Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Operating 24/7 service, 24 hours a day with on-site parking, shopping and dining, Melbourne Airport is the List of the busiest airports in Australia, second-busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements. Established in 1970, replacing Essendon Airport, Melbourne Airport is the main and sole international airport serving Victoria (state), Victoria. The airport comprises four terminals: one international terminal, two domestic terminals and one budget domestic terminal. It is northwest of the Melbourne central business district, city centre, adjacent to the suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria, Tullamarine. The airport has its own suburb with its own postcode — Melbourne Airport, Victoria, 3045 respectively. The facility presently covers 2,741 hectares (6,773 acres) of airport property, making MEL among the largest airports in Australia in ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport is an international airport serving Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, total amounting to more than 22.7 million passengers who travelled through the airport in 2016. In 2016, an OAG report named Brisbane airport as the fifth-best performing large-sized airport in the world for on-time performance with 87% of arrivals and departures occurring within 15 minutes of their scheduled times, slipping from 88.31% the year before. It covers an area of , making the airport the largest in land area in all of Australia. Brisbane Airport is the primary hub for Virgin Australia, a major hub for Qantas, and a secondary hub for Qantas' low cost subsidiary Jetstar. Brisbane has the third highest number of domestic connections in Australia following Sydney and Melbourne. It is also home to Qantas' Airbus A330 and Boeing 737 heavy maintenance facilities. Virgin A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Link Airways
Vee H Aviation Pty Ltd, operating as Link Airways, formerly known as Fly Corporate, is an Australian regional airline based at Brisbane Airport, Queensland. The airline operates scheduled regional passenger services in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. Link Airways operates a fleet of Saab 340B Plus and Fairchild Metro 23 turboprop aircraft. Overview Launching in 2016 under the Fly Corporate brand, the airline was established by parent company Corporate Air, an air charter company that has been operating since 1972, to fly scheduled air services. The airline bases its aircraft at Brisbane Airport and Canberra Airport, from where it operates to regional destinations across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. It has its own heavy maintenance facility at Goulburn Airport in New South Wales. History The first scheduled route announced under the Fly Corporate brand was from Brisbane to Coffs Harbour. During 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aviation
''Australian Aviation'' is an online and print aviation publication covering the aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' include fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as h ... industry. History ''Australian Aviation'' was founded by in 1977 by Jim Thorn as ''Australian Aviation & Defence Review''. It was founded as an annual, becoming a quarterly publication in 1979, bi-monthly in 1985 and monthly from May 1990. From March 1994 it became all colour. In April 2005, it was sold to employees Gerard Frawley, Andrew Mclaughlin and Lee Anne Simm. In 2018, the publication was acquired by Aviator Media. It was subsequently purchased by Momentum Media in 2020. References {{Reflist External linksOfficial website Aviation magazines Bi-monthly magazines published in Australia Magazines established in 1977 Magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walgett Airport
Walgett Airport is an airport in Walgett, New South Wales, Australia. Airlines and destinations See also *List of airports in New South Wales This is an incomplete list of airports in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of New South Wales. __TOC__ List of airports The list is sorted by the name of the community served, click the sort buttons in the table header ... References Airports in New South Wales {{NewSouthWales-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
