Avalon Airport is embarking on main upgrades forward of the launch of recent worldwide Jetstar providers subsequent yr.
Melbourne’s second main airport not too long ago opened an upgraded freight facility and can see Jetstar flights to Bali start in March 2026. The airport may also obtain its first public bus route in coming months, complementing the prevailing SkyBus service.
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One thousand new seats shall be added throughout the airport’s worldwide and home terminals, alongside runway lighting upgrades, new safety gear, CCTV, new management tower water connections, and an additional 500 parking areas.
Based on Victoria’s Minister for Regional Growth, Jaclyn Symes, the upgrades themselves will create round 80 new jobs on prime of the elevated customer economic system advantages.
“This infrastructure will set the muse for much more flights in regional Victoria for years to come back,” she stated.
A brand new Route 18 bus service, operating seven days every week, will join the airport to Lara Station on the Geelong line, permitting simpler transit entry. Victoria’s Minister for Public Transport, Gabrielle Williams, stated it will likely be a “very important public transport connection for passengers and employees”.
“The brand new bus route will ship higher public transport choices for Avalon and guarantee improved entry for hundreds of employees and passengers day by day, along with the extra providers on the Geelong Line delivered final yr,” she stated.
Avalon, Victoria’s secondary worldwide airport, is 45 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD and 20 minutes from Geelong. It’s presently served solely by Jetstar and FlyPelican, and like Tullamarine has no devoted rail hyperlink, with Lara Station eight minutes away by highway.
Talking to Australian Aviation final yr, then-CEO Tony Brun stated a “London Luton-style” rail hyperlink to the airport might be simply arrange.
“We construct a brand new prepare station on the prevailing Melbourne-Geelong line, and we construct a lifeless straight highway from the terminal to that prepare station utilizing the prevailing highway interchange on the freeway, and we join it from day one with a bus and/or trackless tram,” he stated.
“We don’t hassle diverting the prepare, as a result of that’ll solely upset Melbourne to Geelong folks – we put a prepare station there that’s devoted for Avalon journey, and we join it day one with bus or trackless tram, and at some point it’ll be everlasting monorail or no matter,” he stated.
“It’ll be accomplished once we’ve acquired the passenger numbers to justify it, however you’ll have the ability to purchase a Myki ticket out of Southern Cross station or Frankston station or Geelong station and get to Avalon Airport.”
Jetstar is about so as to add greater than 330,000 seats to Avalon per yr with the launch of recent and upgraded providers in March.
