Gold Coast Airport Gold Coast–Coolangatta | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Queensland Airports | ||||||||||||||
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| Focus city for | Virgin Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Operating base for | Jetstar | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 21 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°09′54″S 153°30′22″E / 28.16500°S 153.50611°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | goldcoastairport.com.au | ||||||||||||||
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  OOL/YBCG Location in Queensland  OOL/YBCG OOL/YBCG (Queensland)  OOL/YBCG OOL/YBCG (Australia)  OOL/YBCG OOL/YBCG (Oceania) | |||||||||||||||
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Sources: AIP[1] passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Gold Coast Airport statistics[3] | |
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| Year | Total passengers |
| 2001–02 | 1,736,004 |
| 2002–03 | 2,177,602 |
| 2003–04 | 2,504,001 |
| 2004–05 | 3,141,771 |
| 2005–06 | 3,515,021 |
| 2006–07 | 3,777,856 |
| 2007–08 | 4,323,355 |
| 2008–09 | 4,618,200 |
| 2009–10 | 5,186,147 |
| 2010–11 | 5,486,072 |
| 2011–12 | 5,315,923 |
| 2012–13 | 5,795,449 |
| 2013–14 | 5,746,566 |
| 2014–15 | 5,865,437 |
| 2015–16 | 6,303,920 |
Gold Coast Airport (formerly known as Coolangatta Airport[4]) (IATA: OOL, ICAO: YBCG) is a domestic and international Australian airport located at the southern end of the Gold Coast and approximately 90 km (56 mi) south of Brisbane, within the South East Queensland agglomeration. The entrance to the airport is situated in the suburb of Bilinga near Coolangatta. The main runway itself cuts through the state borders of Queensland and New South Wales. During summer, these states are in two different time zones. The Gold Coast Airport operates on Queensland Time (year-round AEST / UTC+10).
The facility occupies 371 hectares (917 acres) of airport property.[5]
- ^ YBCG – Gold Coast (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024
- ^ Airport traffic data Archived 14 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Airport Traffic Data 1985–86 to 2010–11". Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "About Gold Coast Airport". Gold Coast Airport. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "GCA Airport Master Plan 2017 (pgs.34,128)" (PDF). web-data.qidairports.com.au. Retrieved 15 November 2023.