Cairns Airport: Brisbane to Cairns route the busiest in the country

Cairns Airport announced (19-Aug-2020) Brisbane-Cairns intrastate route is the busiest route in Australia, as airlines are increasing capacity into Cairns from intrastate and selected interstate destinations, indicating the region is well poised to see strong return in visitor numbers as momentum continues. From the beginning of Sep-2020, Cairns will see the return of 11 weekly Gold Coast services and Jetstar will resume twice weekly service to Darwin. Jetstar is also increasing service to Adelaide to six times a week from 19-Aug-2020 and then to daily from 01-Sep-2020. Brisbane-Townsville, and Brisbane-Mackay are now the second and third busiest routes nationally. [more - original PR]