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Australia's Brisbane Airport has hit a 17-year low in travellers processed through the capital city facility
July 21st 2021
Brisbane Airport has recorded its lowest annual passenger total in 17 years, with the number of domestic and international passengers for the 2020-2021 financial year dropping 56%, to 7.8 million, from a record high of 17.96 million in 2019-2020. Read More » The Queensland capital city airport said the numbers were its lowest annual total since 1994. “The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly one of the toughest challenges the aviation industry has faced, but we have managed the financial losses better than many due to our significant intrastate network," Brisbane Airport Corporation CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, said. While airlines have maintained international flights to Australia in the past 18 months at great financial loss, de Graaff said this strategy was unsustainable. He called on governments to put in place policies to ensure Australia's connectivity to the world was protected.
