ADELAIDE UPS CLAIMS FOR AIR FREIGHT HUB
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- Thursday, 27 July 2006
After nearly five months of embarrassing delay, international, domestic and regional services now operate through the terminal. Contamination in the fuel hydrant system prevented domestic airlines from moving in until February 2006. International flights, refuelled by tankers, used their new home from October 12 2005, and went on to the hydrant system after it was pronounced safe in February.
AAL corporate affairs manager John McArdle says the consolidation hasn’t changed the freight culture inbound and outbound to Adelaide. What it has done is release a significant amount of aviation-associated infrastructure that increases the potential growth for imports and exports of airfreight to SA.
All the aircraft parking area have “opened up”. It can park comfortably up to 16 wide-bodied aircraft ranging from the 737-800 to the A320-300 series and offers “huge potential”.
Since the terminal opened (officially on October 7, 2005), Singapore Airlines has increased daily services, Air New Zealand has put on three daytime services/week non-stop to NZ with a direct connection with the West Coast of the US, and Jetstar services have almost doubled. There has also been an increase in domestic services of both Virgin and Qantas to Darwin.
