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Gold Coast Airport, (formerly known as Coolangatta Airport), is an Australian domestic and international airport located at the southern end of the Gold Coast, approximately south of Brisbane and south of Surfers Paradise. The entrance to the airport is situated in the suburb of Bilinga on the Gold Coast. The runway itself straddles five suburbs of twin cities across the state border of Queensland and New South Wales. During summer these states are in two different time zones. The Gold Coast Airport operates on Queensland Time all year round. For the 2013–14 financial year, Gold Coast Airport was the sixth busiest airport in Australia, and the busiest outside a state capital, in terms of passengers and eighth in aircraft movements.〔 It is also the third fastest growing airport in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://goldcoastairport.com.au/corporate/about-gold-coast-airport/ )〕 ==History== Until 1999 the airport was known as ''Coolangatta Airport''. This is an Aboriginal word meaning "Place of Good View". It originally consisted (1936) of three grass strips with the intention of only providing an emergency landing ground for airmail aircraft transiting between Brisbane and Sydney. Passenger flights took off for the first time in 1939 using the then grassy field of the current Coolangatta site. Regular services were started by Queensland Airlines and Butler Air Transport after the Second World War. Ansett started its own services in 1950 using DC-3s, while Trans Australia Airlines did the same in 1954 using DC-3s too as well as DC-4s and Convairs to link other Australian cities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About )〕 By 1958 the taxiways and runways were fully paved, with the latter being upgraded a decade later to allow jet operations with DC-9 and L-188 Electra aircraft to begin. The current terminal, entitled ''Eric Robinson Building'', was officially opened in 1981 by Acting Prime Minister Douglas Anthony, when at the time more than 650,000 passengers were using the airport. The following year, the main runway was lengthened to , thus permitting the use of wide-body jets by the two domestic operators Ansett Australia and Trans Australia Airlines and their Boeing 767 and Airbus A300 respectively on flights from Melbourne and Sydney.〔 On 1 January 1988 the airport ownership was transferred from the government to the Federal Airports Corporation. Its full privatisation occurred a decade later, when it was taken over by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) on 29 May 1998. By 1999 the company's name had changed to become Gold Coast Airport Pty Ltd (GCAPL).〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.goldcoastairport.com.au/gcal-history.php ) 〕 The airport suffered from the collapse of Ansett in 2001 – Ansett had operated direct services from the Gold Coast to 12 Australian destinations. In 2003 GCAPL was taken over by Queensland Airports Limited and today also own and operate Mount Isa Airport, Townsville Airport and Longreach Airport〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Queensland Airports Limited )〕 Despite the name change from ''Coolangatta Airport'' to ''Gold Coast Airport'' during the change of ownership, the airport still carries its original IATA Airport code, OOL. In 1990 the airport welcomed its first international charter service from New Zealand, and by 1999 Air New Zealand low-cost subsidiary Freedom Air started scheduled no-frills service from Hamilton, New Zealand with Boeing 737s. In 2007 the airport celebrated the arrival of AirAsia X, which began services directly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Tiger Airways Australia, which started services to Melbourne. By January 2008 the Kuala Lumpur route had proved so popular that all flights up to the month of March were completely booked. AirAsia X announced that they would begin a daily service from 6 February 2010. On 22 September 2008 it was announced that Air Pacific will expand its services to Australia with the introduction of twice weekly flights between Nadi, Fiji and the Gold Coast commencing in December 2008. Air Pacific's managing director and CEO, John Campbell, said "Australia is Fiji's number one source of visitors and with the population growing rapidly in the south east corner of Queensland we know the time is right to introduce this service." The new route commenced on 1 December 2008, with two flights per week operated by the 160 seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft on a Monday and Saturday. The service has since been suspended. By 2009 Jetstar began flying at least twice daily to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka. Services to New Zealand increased as well, with Jetstar, Air New Zealand and Pacific Blue flying to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Airnorth also started services to the airport from Darwin, via Mount Isa. In addition, Virgin Blue announced direct services from Canberra and Townsville. This opens up connections between all three QAL owned airports – Mount Isa Airport, Townsville Airport and Gold Coast Airport. 2010 saw Jetstar announce the airport as its newest hub, increased services to Cairns〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jetstar increases flights to Cairns – Airline-Hotel-News )〕 and new direct services to Perth (discontinued in 2013) and Queenstown.〔()〕 Tiger Airways also announced their newest base at Avalon Airport in Geelong, and said that services from Avalon to the Gold Coast will commence later in the year;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tiger Airways )〕 however, services to Adelaide would be cut due to delays in receiving new aircraft which were meant to be for their new Avalon base. On 13 June 2010 start up airline PacificFlier began weekly services from Koror, Palau, using an Airbus A310. The route has since been suspended due to traffic rights and terminal access being halted in Palau.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blank )〕 On 26 October 2010 Gold Coast Airport was named the 2010 Major Airport of the Year 2010 by the Australian Airports Association (AAA).〔()〕 On 16 November 2010 Jetstar announced new daily direct services to Hobart. On 30 March 2011 Gold Coast Airport was named the Best Regional Airport Asia/Pacific and was awarded the staff Service Excellence Australia/Pacific award at the Skytrax World Airport Awards in Copenhagen, Denmark.〔(Skytrax Award Win )〕 On 12 June 2012 Scoot Commenced services to Singapore. On 13 August 2012 Qantas announced that it will return to Gold Coast, flying from Sydney three times daily using a Boeing 737-800. On 28 September 2012 Qantas Commenced services to Sydney. On 11 December 2013 Jetstar announced that they will end the three times weekly services to Osaka-Kansai on 8 May 2014. On 8 September 2014, Jetstar announced they will commence services to Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand in December 2014. On 21 December 2014, Jetstar announced they will reinstate Perth services from 29 March 2015. On 22 December 2014 Jetstar announced they will launch services to Nadi, Fiji commencing from 31 March 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gold Coast Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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