MINUTES AAA Queensland Division Meeting 09 August 2017 Stamford Plaza Brisbane (River Room) Chair: Rob Porter 1. Intro, Apologies, Minutes and Chair’s Report – Rob Porter Welcome to Attendees and Apologies Rob Porter, the AAA Queensland division chair, welcomed members to the meeting and advised apologies had been received from: Glenn Robinson (Whitsunday Coast Airport) Damian Brugman (JJ Ryan Consulting) (Attendees to the meeting are noted as an addendum to these minutes.) Rob thanked the sponsors of the event, Smiths Detection, and their commitment to the AAA for their generous support. Rob thanked everyone for their attendance; spoke of the change of format – from two days, back to a single day. Rob will send out a survey to Members to check if change in format worked ok, to receive feedback from members and other key issues or sessions members may like to see in the future. Rob outlined the agenda for the day; Qantaslink session; the first one in a while, CASA update AsA Update, OTS and Sunshine Coast Airport. Other items discussed by Rob included: Security; don’t read everything you see in the newspaper regarding new security measures; challenges faced; congrats to gateway airports; Airport Alert: please let Nick know New things: Webinar, Pavements 101 80+; Wildlife Webinar 40+ Conference 2017 Adelaide; early bird pricing closes this Friday Industry Awards: get your nominations in Minutes of the Previous Meeting Rob asked that the minutes of the previous meeting be taken as read. No comments were raised by members about the minutes. Rob motioned that the minutes be accepted as a reasonable account of the meeting. The minutes were unanimously accepted. Election of State Division Representatives There was no AGM this year; elected last year for two years. 1 2. AAA Report – Nick Lane, Deputy CEO, AAA Nick provided a general update on activities and major projects – including major policy and advocacy activities notably the regional airport funding project. It was noted that the AAA extended the early bird rate for conference to 11 August 2017 and advised that the closing date for awards nominations was also 11 August 2017. Nick also provided an overview of the AAA webinar series, including an overview of webinars held to date plus flagged with members that more webinars are coming but encouraged members to provide topics for future ones. 3. Around the Tarmacs – reports from Member Airports Member Airports were invited to share updates on recent activity within their businesses, and were given verbally by the following airports: Sunshine Coast, Pete Pallot – 1.7M double digits; mining boom coming back into rotation; airport was (still to be formerly executed) sold to Palisade Investment Partners, Carbon Neutrality; gong at Routes Asia; looking for 9 new staff operational staff plus to mid-management positions; Projects: baggage handling system and CBS project just finished; LED floodlighting for apron; international terminal stage 3 working with DIBP complying with requirements – happy to share war stories; second screen point; problems with apron. Gold Coast, Matt Bender – 6m pax previous financial year (first time); Project: concrete slabs poured on southern apron expansion; modular parking/passengers in zones; provides clarification. Bundaberg, Greg Barrington – federal money fixing apron and runway; Lane Dechaineux retiring at soon. Hamilton Island, Adrian – targeting 550,000pax ended up getting 505,000; impact of cyclone; operation at 85% capacity with 75% of passenger; work is held up by building and contractors; Projects: pretty much the entire aerodrome – terminal, fences, signage, flooding, water damage; New project; baggage claim area project (T shaped carousals); turning nodes and main apron resurfacing works; restricted by accommodation issues for contractors; airlines (Qantas) were good after the cyclone – working well on loads and capacity etc.; coordinated well; Need to see this continue and find a good balance in the scheduling; Rob Porter: in times of emergency reach out to your other airports/operators – sharing resources and adding extra relief; Paul Watson: business recovery plan – faced not having one so shows how critical it is (simply checklist to say what’s working and what can be done to get things back up and running). Gladstone, Peter Friel – numbers down 310,000 last year; green shoots in the new year; major changes in senior management, commercial managers, Darren Crane, Colin Forte appointed COO; trying to introduce a new culture throughout the business; projects: nothing major coming up; Virgin pulled out but Alliance have moved in; Colin Fort: Changing culture and get into a better pattern, operational software (ARONs) (tool that is affordable for regionals); Looking for new operational staff; Rob P: decline in pax challenging; good opportunity for tourism in the Gladstone; Peter F: agreed that good tourism areas (look out Cairns!!). 2 Emerald, David Voss – Pax numbers are steady; Adani should lead to a bump up too; focus for last 12 months – infrastructure; needs some investment in assets; Runway enrichment 1600m plus taxiway Bravo – $4-5m reconstruction of some elements of the runway; $1.2 in funding from Qld Government from “Building our Regionals” Scheme. Funding for ALAs as well. In total approx. $1.6 funding from combination of both State and Fed Govt; other works, new PAPIs; 2018 spent $2.8 on general aviation area; maintenance and extensions; also in GA area for small operators; aircraft maintenance; Masterplan – now 4 years old and doesn’t align with current situation – feasibility study and start from scratch again; look at other areas apart from mining and FIFO; airlines should take note there are airports looking at their infrastructure. Whitsunday Coast Airport, Tony Schulz – overview on key projects; funding $40M; community day; Cyclone and aftermath; Rob: Package for next meeting, airports effected by Cyclone Debbie; war stories and lessons learnt. Brisbane Airport, Peter Dunlop – pax numbers; Projects: runway upgrade; apron upgrades; international terminal upgrades; self-service/baggage drop; domestic terminal hotel and convention centre; skygate homelife centre; completed DFO stage 4 plus carpark extension; Repco, Haymans Electrical; Aviation Australia, AFC Stage 1 & 2; Hanson; Direct Couriers warehouses; Changes in personnel; Reporting tracker airside 20% increase in efficiency. Cairns Airport, Kate McCreery-Carr – growth year on year; domestic 4.5m international growing rapidly China Southern Hong Kong increased services Silkair increased services; domestic sitting at normal growth 5%; issue with capacity at gate area, realignment rather than re development; staff restructure and aligning with core growth focus on customer service business; number of roles recruiting on engineering, building management specialists; chief commercial officer, retail; issues with border force – under resourced and not making customer experience great; new technology in 18months which will increase passenger facilitation process; Chinese and Japanese liaison officers to help greet customers; F&B tenders out to both terminals; taxiway bravo works commencing in 2 weeks; new mix and trialling for works about to commence; taxiway Charlie works; runway centre lighting LED; challenging issues around increased security measures in both terminals, increased ETD levels to 35% so is causing some efficiency issues; major airports having to take on significant levels of staff, Simon from AAA body of work and meeting with Dutton’s office; again don’t believe everything you read in newspaper; thanks to ISS and contractors in the security space; Cat 1 major gateway major airports; how this also looks to the airlines (with Qantas in the room); increases in security threats are looked at logically (not just throwing staff at the problem); look for better ways through technology. Townsville Airport, Jason Rainbird – Plus Longreach and Mount Isa – Longreach 32.2 11% down so in reality 2% up; Mount Isa down compared previous year but anticipate bounce; 1.57m for year for Townsville; Projects: Longreach ALER replacement; Mount Isa RPT apron works $2-3m 4-8 months; Isa $3 project solar install part of the roof of carpark; Isa now paid carpark system; reticulation hV system upgraded around the airport; offset 100% throughout the day; Townsville projects: $9m fund loan to be repaid back, upgrade strengthen RPT apron additional code C bay plus 2x other bays; $2.5 HV system; increase capacity to provide power to site; funding for water reticulation to the site so airport can upgrade the internal reticulation site; air new guinea started flights; international freight hub for Townsville; Freight for Air New Guinea to Asia; fuel facility; Fuel hub new 4-6 hub; terminal upgrades, rental car hubs, toilets; joint user works with Defence including tower; Defence throwing in a significant; minimal impact of Cyclone Debbie; Pete Pallot: moving fuel facility; Jason confirmed new Greenfields site and uplift in rent and negotiated. 3 Roma Airport, Ben Stewart – CSG boom but tapered off; got first month of non-negative growth in 3 years; Redevelopment of terminal, baggage carousel system to add capacity for passengers; runway about to have overlay done, funding from State Govt. Moranbah Airport, Lawry Aitken - runway drainage works, runway overlay latter in the year; second ground handling agenda at airport; implemented ARONs systems – good outcome happy with implementation; Joined up membership; 181,000pax;