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Alice Springs airport gets new infrastructure
21 March 2007
Officials at Central Tourism Australia (CTA) believe that bringing permanent infrastructure for international flights to one of the country's major airports will help to make the destination more competitive.
Alice Springs airport currently has to bring in special equipment when international chartered flights arrive, with the costs making the hub less competitive than others.
Authorities have to ring in x-ray machines and tug equipment for the arrival of international flights, with the costs being passed on to airlines.
'Between all of those pieces of equipment, that added about $150,000 (£61,000) to each set of charters which come to central Australia, so immediately that makes all the charters to central Australia just so much more economically viable,' Craig Catchlove, general manager at the CTA, told ABC News.
The CTA is expected to sign off funding from the Commonwealth on 21 March after spending the last two-and-a-half years seeking it.
It is expected that the new infrastructure will be in place by May of this year.
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Alice Springs airport currently has to bring in special equipment when international chartered flights arrive, with the costs making the hub less competitive than others.
Authorities have to ring in x-ray machines and tug equipment for the arrival of international flights, with the costs being passed on to airlines.
'Between all of those pieces of equipment, that added about $150,000 (£61,000) to each set of charters which come to central Australia, so immediately that makes all the charters to central Australia just so much more economically viable,' Craig Catchlove, general manager at the CTA, told ABC News.
The CTA is expected to sign off funding from the Commonwealth on 21 March after spending the last two-and-a-half years seeking it.
It is expected that the new infrastructure will be in place by May of this year.
© Adfero Ltd
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