Brisbane International Airport

Brisbane Airport is Australia's third-busiest passenger airport after Sydney Kingsford Smith and Melbourne Tullamarine, and the principal airport for Queensland and the eastern-Australia catchment that includes the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and much of regional Queensland. Located 8 mi (13 km) northeast of central Brisbane on reclaimed land at the mouth of the Brisbane River, BNE handles 131 routes to 73 destinations operated by 29 airlines. The airport's strategic position on the eastern seaboard — well north of Sydney and closer to Asia than either Sydney or Melbourne — gives Brisbane a meaningful role as a secondary Pacific and Asian gateway into Australia and a critical long-haul access point for both business travel to Queensland's resources industries and inbound leisure traffic to the Great Barrier Reef and Gold Coast. Virgin Australia operates its head-office hub and primary base at BNE, anchoring its domestic and Trans-Tasman network. Qantas, QantasLink, and Jetstar all operate substantial operations, with Qantas running extensive domestic and international service. Other major carriers include Bonza (historical), Rex Airlines, Alliance Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad, ANA, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, China Airlines, China Eastern, Fiji Airways, Air New Zealand, Air Niugini, Nauru Airlines, Solomon Airlines, United Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic (seasonal). The long-haul network reaches North America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe (one-stop), and the South Pacific — BNE is one of the most important airports in the world for service to Pacific island nations. The airfield has two parallel asphalt runways: 01R/19L at 11,680 ft (3,560 m) and the new parallel 01L/19R at 10,827 ft (3,300 m), commissioned in 2020 as one of the largest single aviation infrastructure projects in Australian history — the AUD 1.3-billion New Parallel Runway effectively doubled BNE's peak-hour capacity and gave Brisbane independent-parallel instrument-approach capability in all weather. International and Domestic are housed in two separate terminals linked by the Airtrain rail service.