Perth International Airport

Perth International Airport (PER) is the fourth-busiest airport in Australia after Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and the principal gateway to Western Australia — the world's largest administrative subdivision by land area after Yakutia and one of its most mineral-rich. PER handles more than 13 million passengers a year and anchors an enormous fly-in/fly-out workforce feeding the iron ore, lithium, natural gas and gold industries of the Pilbara, Kimberley and Goldfields regions. Qantas operates its Perth–London Heathrow nonstop from PER — one of the longest scheduled flights in the world at around 17 hours — making the airport a distinctive long-haul node. It is operated by Perth Airport Pty Ltd. PER sits about 12 km (7 mi) east of central Perth, at an elevation of 67 ft (20 m). Two intersecting asphalt runways — 03/21 at 11,299 ft (3,444 m) and 06/24 at 7,096 ft (2,163 m) — support Airbus A380 operations and a planned parallel 03L/21R runway is under design as part of a multi-billion-dollar capital program. The airport currently operates four passenger terminals (T1 international, T2 and T3 domestic Qantas and international regional, T4 domestic jet); a large-scale consolidation project will move all Qantas operations into an expanded T1 precinct by the late 2020s. Thirty-one airlines link PER to 56 nonstop destinations, with Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Australia and Rex driving dense domestic networks to the eastern capitals, Bali, Christchurch and every major Western Australian mining and tourism destination. International service reaches Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Auckland, Johannesburg, Doha, Dubai and London, with Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, All Nippon and South African Airways all prominent. Its role as Australia's westernmost long-haul gateway and the economic lifeline of the Pilbara mining cluster keep PER strategically central in the Indian Ocean (2025).