News

Today Melbourne Airport celebrates 50 years of connecting Melbourne to the world, since the airport’s official opening on 1 July 1970. 

Melbourne Airport is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the second round of Community Grants, awarding $100,000 across 10 local projects run by Neighbourhood Houses. 

 Melbourne Airport’s monthly passenger numbers remain at less than three per cent of prior year figures as Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact domestic and international aviation.
 

Melbourne Airport has recorded its lowest monthly traveller numbers since the airport first opened in 1970, as travel restrictions due to the coronavirus continue to crush the aviation industry.
 
 

Melbourne Airport has been named Best Airport in Australia/Pacific for 2020, thanks to the feedback of millions of travellers taking part in the world’s largest aviation customer service poll.

Melbourne Airport’s plummeting passenger numbers for March are a preview to the true impact COVID-19 is having on the airport’s operation. In March 2020 total traveller numbers were down by -44 per cent compared to the same time last year.
   

Today Melbourne Airport launched the second round of its Community Grants program, which will provide $100,000 to local Neighbourhood Houses.
 

Key points

• International passenger numbers dive 17 percent in February
• Airport retailers feeling combined loss of passengers and aviation workers
• Long term airport development program continues
• Management confident of post-virus industry rebound