The WA tourism minister wants Qantas to sort out a long-running dispute over terminals at Perth Airport.
Perth Airport acting chief executive Kate Holsgrove told journalists in Jakarta during a WA trade mission that the airport had “plenty of capacity” at Airport Central for all airlines. “Qantas is choosing to operate out of Terminal 3 and not take advantage of Terminal 1,” Ms Holsgrove said.
Qantas argues it relies on domestic travel coming into Perth to make most of its international flights viable and that it would add hours to flights if it had to two aircraft arriving from the east coast destined to continue overseas to the international terminal.
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