Canberra Airport Terminal Upgrades

[Todd Milton]

Did a search and found nothing, so I thought I would start off this thread regarding the Terminal Upgrades at Canberra Airport.

Basically, Canberra Airport will build a new terminal, along with new carparks, and a revamped road system. It has started off with basic works such as the relocation of the Taxi Rank past the Qantas terminal to the west, a covered walkway to the new Hire Car parking which is found near Brindabella Airlines hanger, along with the relocation of the Qantas Staff Parking. The old Qantas staff parking is now a taxi holding bay, and the old taxi holding bay is now Terminal Cct, a Bus Bay and a Loading Zone. The old Terminal Cct is now an exit from the carpark, which includes the old Rental Car Parking area. Roadworks have started around the airport, where the road will be duplicated and reformed to prevent congestion found currently. Works are also currently being performed inside the terminal, the Qantas Admin area across from the Rental Cars is boarded up along with an area next to the rental cars. Also the following as from canberraairport.com.au

Originally Posted by Canberraairport.com.au

• A doubling of check-in counters from 16 to 32;
  
• The installation of two new aerobridges, taking the total to six;
  
• A trebling of the baggage belt capacity;
  
• An additional 1300 car parking spaces taking the total number of spaces to 2500; and
  
• A quadrupling of Club lounge capacity to more than 6000m2.

On a side note and not overly related to the Airports expansion, but ACTION have now also started services to Majura Business Park/Brand Depot (With Deanes Buslines now cancelling all weekeday services to Brand Depot) along with Brindabella Business Park and Fairbairn Business Park. Routes are 28 from/to Woden in Peak Hours Only, Route 10 from Belconnen and Civic on daytime services, along with many Xpresso Services.

Some photos taken today of the terminal exterior showing he extension to the walkway and signage added.


Taken as a 767-300 moves into the bay. This aircraft was still there when I left at 9pm (VH-OGM I believe)



Here is a timeline of the projects at the airport