Brisbane Airport is planning to rename its two current terminals because it prepares to assemble a 3rd.
Within the airport’s preliminary draft 2026 grasp plan, it particulars the transfer to rename the worldwide terminal as T1 and home terminal as T2, with the brand new terminal – positioned between the 2 parallel runways – to be dubbed T3.
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This is able to convey Brisbane Airport in step with Australia’s different three main gateways in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, all of which quantity their terminals.
T3, billed as a “modular terminal” which might deal with each worldwide and home flights, is anticipated to have its preliminary section full within the early to mid-2030s, with additional building to be carried out in phases.
“Planning research for Brisbane Airport point out that when home passenger numbers attain 25 million passengers each year (anticipated round 2032), further terminal ground space shall be required for home operations and processing amenities,” the plan learn.
“Additionally it is anticipated that further worldwide terminal capability shall be required when the prevailing Terminal 1 reaches 10–12 million passengers (anticipated round 2030–34).
“A brand new modular terminal permits for passenger processing and dealing with areas that may be progressively developed in a way that is ready to adapt to future seamless passenger processes and co-location of home and worldwide operations.”
The grasp plan has been slammed by the Brisbane Flight Path Neighborhood Alliance (BFPCA), a long-time critic of the airport, which factors to figures exhibiting that Brisbane may see 382,000 plane actions yearly, plus 195,000 from Archerfield, by 2046.
BFPCA chairperson Marcus Foth labelled the plan “a blueprint for unchecked development, with no regard for the airport’s host communities who already bear the brunt of the noise and air pollution”.
“Nearly 600,000 flights a 12 months or 1,600 a day within the Brisbane Basin just isn’t a sustainable future. It’s a recipe for well being impacts, sleepless nights, and declining liveability,” he stated.
“BAC’s so-called sustainability plan is a sham when one among its anchor tenants continues to be working Seventies plane on poisonous lead-based avgas gasoline.
“The grasp plan lays out a imaginative and prescient of untamed aviation development, worsening noise and air pollution, heavier night-time disruption, and better highway congestion – all whereas glossing over unfavourable impacts and limiting real neighborhood session.”
Brisbane Airport’s $5 billion Future BNE transformation program contains renovations to its home and worldwide terminals, continued planning for a brand new Terminal 3 precinct, plane parking and apron expansions, runway resurfacing, and a brand new aeromedical facility so medical repatriation and emergency providers could be centralised on the airport.
