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 Brisbane
Airport Information
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE, ICAO: YBBN) is the sole passenger
airport serving Brisbane and the third busiest in Australia,
after Melbourne and Sydney Airports. Located in the suburb with
the same name, the airport serves the city of Brisbane and
the surrounding metropolitan area. Brisbane is currently served
with 44 destinations in all States and Territories of Australia
It is the primary hub for Virgin Blue, and a regular hub
for its low cost international subsidiary Pacific Blue Airlines
and a secondary hub for both Qantas and its low cost subsidiary
Jetstar. It is part of the Brisbane–Sydney air route, which
is the twelfth busiest passenger air route in the world, and
the seventh busiest in the Asia-Pacific region.
Brisbane Airport is home to Qantas' 767-300 and A330 heavy
maintenance facility. Virgin Blue has a smaller maintenance
facility at the Airport, where line-maintenance on the Airline's
737 fleet is performed. Other airlines, namely QantasLink
and Alliance also conduct maintenance at their respective
facilities at the Airport.
The airport has international and domestic passenger terminals,
a cargo terminal, a General Aviation terminal and apron as
well as two runways. Brisbane Airport is accessible from the
central business district by the Gateway Motorway and the
Airtrain rail service, which is linked to the Citytrain suburban
network. The new Airport Link motorway is planned to connect
the Brisbane CBD and airport.
The airport was awarded the IATA Eagle Award in 2005, the
second of only two Australian airports to receive such award.
Brisbane Airport was voted the best airport in the Australia-Pacific
region and the airport with the friendliest staff in the world
in the 2008 Skytrax World Airport Awards. In 2009 it was
voted the best airport in Australia and again won the friendliest
staff award for the Asia Pacific region. The International
terminal has also won the Queensland architecture award.
In 2010 it was again voted the "Best Australian Airport"
by Skytrax and made the worlds top 20 airports
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