This Report represents part of a full-scale study by BTE, at the direction of the Minister for Transport, of the development requirements for Brisbane Airport. The full report will be issued at a later date and will present a detailed examination of the civil aviation requirements of the region and the appropriate expansion/replacement program.

• Brisbane Airport: Interim Report on International Terminal
  
  report_009.pdf
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The Commonwealth's regulation of interstate aviation, in place for over thirty years, came to an end at midnight on 30 October 1990. This study reviews the developments in the last few months of regulation and in the first year of deregulation.

• Deregulation of Domestic Aviation–The First Year
  
  report_073.pdf
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This report updates and supersedes the time series statistics presented in Report 115 and Information sheet 35 on Air transport services in regional Australia: trends and access. It updates the data (to 2012) and the geographic basis of the analysis.

• Air Transport Service Trends in Regional Australia–2011 update
  
  report_130.pdf
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Avline provides a summary of previously released Aviation related data drawing on a range of sources including BITRE, ABS, Airservices Australian and the US Energy Information Administration. In addition, Avline provides a comparison of published airport charges at the five major capital city airports and at a selection of regional airports. Avline 2010–11 covers the financial year 2010–11 and is the third of the series to be published annually instead of biannually.

• Avline 2010–11
  
  avline_2010_11.pdf
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This Report presents the results of an economic comparison of alternative strategies for the development of Brisbane Airport.

• Brisbane Airport: Economic Evaluation of Alternative Development Strategies
  
  report_016.pdf
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In this report two alternatives for the provision of international facilities at Townsville Airport are assessed in benefit-cost terms. Unquantifiable factors are considered in conjunction with economic benefits and costs.

• Townsville Airport: Economic Evaluation of Proposed lnternational Facilities
  
  report_024.pdf
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This Occasional Paper reports on an analysis of the factors affecting the demand for international air travel. This analysis serves as a basis for forecasting the response of demand to changes in key policy variables, in particular fares and some aspects of the level of service. The implications for demand for travel to and from Australia of several alternative fare service packages are presented.

• Factors Affecting Demand for International Travel to and from Australia
  
  op_011.pdf
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The importance of an efficient transport system for Australia is self-evident. Not surprisingly, both public investment and government legislation have been employed to develop transport networks over time. Domestic air transport is a most important component of the Australian transport sector. Any inquiry into the status and future of domestic air transport policies is clearly an important study, and the current Department of Transport Review of Domestic Air Transport Policy has particularly wide implications. This Paper was originally prepared by BTE in response to a general request by the Department of Transport for submissions on domestic air transport policies in Australia. Only minor revisions have been made.

• Australian Domestic Air Transport : Some Economic Issues
  
  op_015.pdf
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The Paper presents methods used for forecasting future passenger and aircraft movements at Sydney Airport. Forecast movements at 5-year intervals to the year 2000 are also presented using these methods, on the basis of assumptions about the future course of many underlying determinants such as population, income, fares, aircraft types, load factors and so on. The forecasts were prepared in support of the Major Airports Needs of Sydney (MANS) Study, and embody assumptions adopted by a Forecasting Consultative Group consisting of members drawn from various Commonwealth and State Government bodies.

• Sydney Region Aviation Forecasts
  
  op_025.pdf
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This Report was prepared in response to a Ministerial reference relating to the feasibility of the introduction of duty free shopping for inward-bound passengers at Australian international air passenger terminals.

Some of the major conclusions of this report are based on a simple conceptual model of duty-free shops which is described in detail in Appendix 2 of the Report.

• Inwards Duty Free Shopping at Australian International Air Terminals: An Economic Evaluation
  
  report_045.pdf
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