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Brisbane Airport passenger traffic exceeds pre-pandemic records
March 6th 2025
Brisbane Airport processed more than 100% of pre-COVID passengers in the recent summer holiday season when international terminal air traveler throughput delivered its two busiest months on record. Read More » In December, more than 631,700 passengers passed through Brisbane International Terminal, beating the previous record of January 2020 when 620,000 passengers were processed through the terminal. In January results were even better when the airport’s international traveler throughput was 638,800 passengers in the 31 days, 109% of pre-COVID numbers. The city’s domestic terminal passengers were 104% of pre-pandemic numbers in the same month. “While we acknowledge this is a milestone worth celebrating, it will be the last time we talk publicly about 2019 numbers. This is a line-in-the-sand moment. From now we will only quote year-on-year numbers,” Brisbane Airport CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, said. The airport’s international passenger growth is driven by new routes American Airlines to Dallas-Fort Worth, Delta Air Lines to Los Angeles, Jetstar to Bangkok and Qantas Airways to Manila and Palau. Additionally, United Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Qantas Airways have increased capacity on existing routes, the airport said.
