Bleach* Festival joins in welcoming visitors over Easter
Thousands of Commonwealth Games spectators, athletes and officials arriving at Gold Coast Airport across the Easter weekend will be welcomed with a personalised performance from Bleach* Festival. In an Australian airport first, lively, colourful performers...
Doors open at airport’s Games lounge
Gold Coast Airport has unveiled its GC2018 Airport Lounge in the days before thousands of Commonwealth Games athletes and officials start converging on the city. The GC2018 Airport Lounge has been created to give athletes, officials, sponsors, dignitaries and...
Airport unwraps travellers’ favourites
Macadamia nuts, coffee, bottled water, hot chips and chewing gum were among the most popular items sold to travellers coming through Gold Coast Airport in 2017. Gold Coast Airport retailers sold 81,000 packets of chewing gum, 325,000 litres of bottled water and used...
Airport flies high with record passengers
The records keep coming at Gold Coast Airport, with the busiest day in history landing in January and toppling the previously highest day – just 15 days after it was set. On 7 January, 24,585 passengers arrived and departed the airport, which is a larger number than...
Hong Kong services added over Chinese New Year
Hong Kong Airlines has boosted its Gold Coast-Hong Kong service for the Chinese New Year period to cater for the expected increase in Chinese visitors to the city. Five direct services between the two destinations have been added to the existing five times per week...
Airport rolls out welcome mat for Games visitors
Pop up theatre, live music, wildlife presentations, indigenous performances and stilt walkers – Gold Coast Airport is gearing up to provide a unique entertainment experience to thousands of Commonwealth Games athletes, officials and spectators as they arrive and...
Public invited to have say on GCA’s hotel development
The onsite hotel planned for the Gold Coast Airport precinct is one step closer this week with the release of the Preliminary Draft Major Development Plan (PDMDP) and the beginning of public consultation. The draft plan maps out the proposed construction of a $50...
Gold Coast Airport records busiest day in history
Gold Coast Airport has recorded its busiest day in history, welcoming 24,076 passengers on Saturday 23 December 2017. Previously Gold Coast Airport’s busiest day was Sunday 3 January 2016, when 23,856 passengers passed through the Coolangatta facility. A record was...
Gold Coast welcomes direct service to Apple Isle
Tigerair Australia has today flown its inaugural flight from Hobart to the Gold Coast, commencing the only direct low cost service between the two destinations. Tigerair will operate the return service four times weekly, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays at...
GCA Community Benefit Fund flies high
Gold Coast Airport has distributed more than $25,000 in grants to nearly 30 community groups across the Gold Coast and Tweed regions as part of its 2017 Community Benefit Fund. The annual program is focused on supporting local community-based initiatives in the areas...