Move over Tasmania, here comes Moranbah and Mackay!
Mackay's Daily Mercury newspaper has recently reported that Brisbane Airport Corporation has recently released figures
showing that Moranbah Airport in Central Queensland has pushed popular
interstate tourist routes to Hobart and Launceston out of the year's top 20 domestic
flight destinations.
Other Central Queensland towns benefiting from the resource
boom such as Mackay, Gladstone and Emerald have also moved up in the list.
Growth in the Brisbane-Mackay route has been encouraging, with a 16.8% increase in passenger numbers on the
route this March compared with the same month in the previous
year. A total of 79,000 passengers travelled between Mackay and
Brisbane, which highlights the strength of the intrastate market, particularly
in servicing the booming resources sector.
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