January was the busiest month in Melbourne Airport\u2019s history with a record 3,393,977 passengers welcomed through the terminals, surpassing the previous record of 3,322,940 passengers set in December 2019.<\/p>\n
The airport also set a new monthly record international travellers with 1,238,829 people passing through the international terminal, including a record 671,135 arrivals. The previous record for international travel at Melbourne Airport was set only a month earlier in December 2024, with 1,147,533 passengers, as seat capacity into Australia\u2019s largest 24-hour airport reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n
The record number of international passengers was up 14 per cent on January the previous year, while domestic traffic was up five percent. January also included the busiest day in more than five years, with 122,751 people travelling through the airport on Friday the 24th\u00a0<\/span>ahead of the Australia Day long weekend and Australian Open final.<\/p>\n With foreign carriers accounting for 72 percent of international capacity into Victoria, Melbourne Airport has worked closely with the state government and airlines to restore flights and encourage new services. In the past 12 months, airlines including Turkish Airlines, Vietjet, Cebu Pacific, China Southern and China Airlines have added extra capacity into Melbourne, with US giant Delta Air Lines and Virgin Australia due to launch flights to Los Angeles and Doha respectively in December.<\/p>\n Melbourne Airport CEO Lorie Argus said the new records highlight the success of \u201cTeam Victoria\u201d in making the state more accessible to foreign tourists while improving connections for local travellers and exporters. \u201cSince the Australian border reopened in 2021, we\u2019ve been working closely with the Victorian government to rebuilt international airline capacity into Melbourne, and we\u2019re now seeing the benefits,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen Melbourne Airport\u2019s arrival halls are busy, Melbourne\u2019s restaurants and cafes are busy, our hotels are busy and Victoria\u2019s tourism industry is busy, which is great for employment and the state economy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to think that in just three years we\u2019ve rebuilt international capacity from close to nothing, to the point where we are setting new records,\u201d Argus said. \u201cThe challenge for us now is to deliver the infrastructure we need to cater for this ongoing growth. That\u2019s why we\u2019re building a new baggage system, a new road system and a new runway, as well as working with the airlines to expand the international terminal to give them the capacity they need to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January was the busiest month in Melbourne Airport\u2019s history with a record 3,393,977 passengers welcomed through the terminals, surpassing the previous record of 3,322,940 passengers set in December 2019. The airport also set a new monthly record international travellers with 1,238,829 people passing through the international terminal, including a record 671,135 arrivals. The previous record …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":null,"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[98,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-featured-en"],"yoast_head":"\n