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The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 609,000 passenger movements collectively for the month of April. This was an increase of 4.4% for the QAL Group over the same period last year.

The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 617,500 passenger movements collectively for the month of March. This was an increase of 4.7% for the QAL Group over the same period last year.

Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) has completed a major $532m refinancing of its senior debt facilities.

QAL has secured funding from a group of four banks made up of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, Westpac and Royal Bank of Canada. The funding is spread across three and five year terms. The new facility refinances exiting debt totalling $468m and provides capacity for QAL to fund further expansion and upgrade works at its three airports in Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa.

The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 588,500 passenger movements collectively for the month of August.

This was a decrease of 5.3% for the QAL Group over the same period last year.

Gold Coast Airport recorded 419,069 passengers, a decrease of 7.5% over August last year.

The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 620,000 passenger movements collectively for the month of July.

This was a decrease of 4.3% for the QAL Group over the same period last year.

The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 7 million passenger movements for the 2010/11 financial year. This is an increase of 5.5% over the previous year and the first time the QAL Group has exceeded 7 million passengers.

In a difficult period, all three airports experienced year on year growth. Gold Coast Airport recorded more than 5.4 million passengers (+5.3%), Mount Isa recorded more than 217,000 passengers (+19.5%) and Townsville recorded more than 1.67 million passengers (+4.6%).

Queensland Airports Limited has announced two new appointments to the senior management team.

David Collins has been appointed to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and David Hedges appointed to General Manager Property and Legal.

The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded almost 700,000 passenger movements collectively for the month of January.

This is a new record high for the QAL Group, eclipsing the previous record of 660,788 passengers set in December 2010.

Passenger movements increased by more than 17% compared to January 2010 for the QAL Group.

Queensland Airports Limited is celebrating the achievements of staff member Aaron Coghill, who was today awarded an Australia Day Achievement Medallion.

The award is presented by the Department of Community Safety to staff and volunteers who have made a significant contribution to the work of the department or provided outstanding service during the past year.

The Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) Group and each of the three airports it owns and operates at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa all achieved new record passenger movements in 2010.

QAL Group passengers in aggregate were up by more than 10 per cent on 2009, with more than 7.3 million people passing through the three airports.