Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee (part 3 of 3)
9 February 2026
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Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:59
Speaker 31
The airport. We had a emergency exercise last year, which, included, all of the... It was hundreds of people in in... Involved in that emergency exercise. We had 80 members of the public involved on the runway.
All the emergency services over 80, pieces of emergency equipment were were involved, a big exercise, and we had an RFS seven thirty seven land. We have had, smaller Piper aircraft land on the runway as well. So we're we're... That was the last, one that you're referring to, senator. In terms of, moving towards operations, we are on track to open in second half of this year.
We will open... Our target is to open in July for freight operations, which is, the smart way to do it, which is open the runway first, and we're working towards that. And, we will open for passenger operations at the end of October. So they are our target dates.
01:00 - 01:05
Speaker 7
Right. Okay. And so what airlines will begin operating in... On those dates?
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