Gold Coast Airport is expecting its busiest festive season in three years, with up to 925,000 passengers expected through the terminal across the 6-week holiday period.

Queensland Airports Limited is excited to announce, after more than two and a half years, AirAsia X is returning to its first ever route between Kuala Lumpur and the Gold Coast, operating three return services a week, with the first flight to touch down at Gold Coast Airport on 16 February next year.

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The next phase of Gold Coast Airport’s new terminal expansion has officially opened, with international passengers welcomed today, completing the three-year project.

Gold Coast Airport is ready to welcome the rest of Australia and the world when its $260 million terminal expansion opens to travellers from the first week of September, revealing an unrivalledspace that reflects the famous region’s unique culture and landscape.

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Gold Coast Airport is calling on volunteers from the Gold Coast and northern NSW to sign up for the new terminal expansion mass trial event in late August – with those interested encouraged to do so quickly.

The first new international service – Virgin Australia’s Gold Coast-Bali service – to connect with the Gold Coast Airport terminal expansion has been announced.

Gold Coast Airport passengers will be spoilt for choice when looking for something to eat, drink and buy thanks to the transformation of the food, beverage and retail outlets in the expanded and existing terminal.

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More than half a million people have travelled through Gold Coast Airport in April – the highest number in a single month since January 2020 – after consecutive long weekends supercharged the domestic travel recovery.

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Australians and overseas visitors hopped back into holiday mode on the long weekend, delivering Gold Coast Airport April passenger records.

Trans-Tasman holidays restart in both directions from today – and flights between the Gold Coast and Auckland have taken off in response to the lifting of restrictions.