BNE new car park and Skywalk

View of the rail station with the tower in the background from the Skywalk.

Skywalk Concourse.

Escalator takes you to level one where you then use a lift to the car stations.

Entrance to the escalator.

The escalator that takes you up to the skywalk

New common user terminal fit out now complete.

Skywalk

‘Skywalk’ is a new pedestrian elevated walkway at the Domestic Terminal.

Skywalk passes over the terminal road system and connects directly with the long-term and new short-term multi-level car parks. It also provides easy access to Airtrain.

Visitors to the Airport can access Skywalk via lifts, travelators and escalators directly outside the Domestic Terminal. Skywalk separates pedestrians from cars creating a safer environment, while reducing congestion on the terminal road system.

Today i had the opportunity to park in the new car park facility.It is so huge.I also used the skywalk from the car park to the terminal.Work is still in progress but it is open and looks to be a very modern new facility at Brisbane airport.

Photos above

BNE past few days

Due to SW QLD floods, the constant movements of both medivac and rescue and evacuation flights still continue.
Qantaslink has had at least 2 flights with their Dash 8 aircraft and Skytrans possibly as many as 6-8 flights.
RFDS and Careflight aircraft are also involved with medical evacuations to BNE from Roma,St George,Mitchell and Dirrinbandi.
Coastwings B300 WXC and Wagners B350 WJW as well as Qld Govt B350 SGQ,and Mach Jet B200 LNJ have been operating numerous flights to the region.

Pionair Cargo CV580 has also done 5 flights out of BNE

USAF KC10 79-1712 arrived in BNE on 7th February and departed yesterday.
G550 N760CC arrived BNE from HNL this morning.

BNE favourite to be Tiger's 2nd Aussie base

Speculation amongst Southern papers yesterday was that Tiger will announce a 2nd base in 2 months time with this base operational by late June.
BNE is rumoured to be the favourite.Apparently BAC and Tiger are talking currently although no decision has been made.

The benefits are BNE is centrally located with plenty of QLD destinations to the north as well as SYD,MEL,ADL,NTL,CBR to the south.A perfect geographical location for a base and if a deal can be done with Air Australia, then there is a new hangar able to fit 2 A320's side by side for maintenance .
With a expanded although busy centre satellite now able to take 7 aircraft as well as 2 at the main terminal the new capacity can take 9 aircraft.
Let's hope they select Brisbane.

Scoot to OOL

Scoot announced today that OOL will be their Australian destination after Sydney was announced previously.
Flights will commence June 12, 5 times weekly with 400 seater B777-200's .
The runway length will surely be tested on this one but i wish them well and plenty of success.
With Jetstar,Air Asia X and Scoot Gold Coast will surely be a favourite Low cost destination from Japan and Asia.

BNE yesterday Saturday.

Air New Zealand 77W on takeoff on 01 yesterday.
All the spotters including me were there again.Pity they changed the runway.

Virgin Australia 737-800 off of RWY 01

OOL based Lear 45 made 2 medivac flights yesterday to flod ravaged Charleville.
VH-VVI is a Careflight medivac aircraft.

Air Australia A320 VH-YQB has finally made it from PER to BNE since being repainted in their new colours.

Norfolk Air B733 VH-NLK about to cross the Runway to the hangars.
It will be sad to see them go at the end of this month.

OOL gets more Jetstar flights.

Jetstar have announced increases out of OOL to both SYD and MEL and the basing of a 4th A320 in this city.
The extra 4 flights a week OOL-MEL commenced recently and the extra daily OOL-SYD will commence 01 April 2012 making 12 flights a day OOL-SYD.
With the extra 4 a week to MEL it makes 53 flights a week with Jetstar.

Virgin Australia increases out of BNE

Virgin Australia will add up to 8 extra departures and similar amount of arrivals a day on weekdays progressively starting from tomorrow .
Extra daily flights will commence to MEL and SYD from tomorrow with CNS,PPP and another daily MEL starting 13 feb.
On 20 Feb a extra BNE-SYD and BNE-ROK will commence and then finally from 6 March another daily BNE-MKY.

BNE will have up to 80 departures on the weekdays as opposed to 68 in early October 2011.A massive increase.

From the end of March one of the new daily Melbourne flights and also Sydney will cease.

In amongst all this will be a extra ATR flights to ROK on weekends.

Expect more flights to be added later in the year as well.

Charleville Flood evacuation and rescue flights

Due to the flooding around SW QLD towns of Roma,Mitchell and Charleville the past few days there have been plenty of rescue and evacuation flights out of BNE yesterday and today.
It is early so far today however C208 VH-SJJ and Brindabella J41 have been involved so far today.

Yesterday was busy with 2 Skytrans Dash 8 flights involved in evacuations out of Charleville along with Pionair Cargo Convair bringing in relief aid.Also B200,B300 VH-WXC,SGQ,OXF
Lear jet VH-VVI did 2 flights as it is a medivac rescue lear.RFDS PC12 and King Airs did a few flights as well to Charleville.
Qld Govt Hawker VH-SGY and Citation VH-PSU also were involved .

BNE today

A6-EYL departing RWY 01 today.

Jetstar VH-VFD their newest 320 today at BNE.

BNE based Coastwings B300 VH-WXC.

Airlink PA-31'S together at BNE GA

Atlasjet at the old terminal.

This week i have been spotting with a fellow spotter from ADL and caught some more images today of above.Trying out my new camera.

Qantaslink announce 717 schedules

QFlink will commence 717 scheds out of BNE on 15 March.Aircraft 2 will commence all flights by June.
43 departures a week are planned to GLT,ROK,MKY .ROK and MKY will also have Fokker 100's flying as well on the routes but by whom Alliance or Network ????

BAC article below.

Airlines ramp up services to regional Qld - Larger aircraft and more flights

31/01/2012

Brisbane’s connectivity with regional Queensland was further strengthened today with the announcement by QantasLink of new B717 services between BNE-Rockhampton and BNE-Mackay, commencing 15 March and 26 March respectively.

These services are in addition to new B717 flights between BNE-Gladstone also commencing on 15 March.

The communities of Roma, Emerald and Bundaberg will also benefit from extra capacity with the airline increasing the number of weekly flights to each destination.

Collectively, the new B717 services and additional flights will contribute more than 4200 additional seats per week to the schedule.

The news follows hot on the heels of Virgin Australia’s recent announcement that it will be increasing flights between BNE and Gladstone, Rockhampton, Cairns and Proserpine throughout February.

From 13 February, Virgin Australia will also add an extra return flight seven days a week between Brisbane and Melbourne; taking the total number of flights on the route to 13 daily.

BAC CEO and Managing Director, Julieanne Alroe, welcomed the news from both airlines which will have significant positive returns for regional Queensland.

“The growth of regional Queensland’s economy is dependent on strong connectivity with Brisbane and other capital city hubs around the nation.

“The importance of improved access to and frequency of quality air services for regional Queensland cannot be under-estimated.

“With upgraded aircraft servicing regional destinations and increased flights, QantasLink and Virgin Australia have added serious capacity to the market which means greater connectivity, choice and more affordability for travellers.

“We congratulate both Virgin Australia and QantasLink on these new services and look forward to working with the airlines to continue bringing people across Queensland and the world closer together,” Ms Alroe said.

For further details about QantasLink’s new services visit www.qantas.com. For further details about Virgin Australia’s new services visit www.virginaustralia.com.