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Speaker 1: A bit of a change of pace right now.

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Speaker 2: It has been a busy time as we know for

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Speaker 2: the Darwin Airport there is a lot of Territori ins

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Speaker 2: no doubt jet setting for the easter break and also

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Speaker 2: taking off for the school holidays. Have you got much planned?

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Speaker 2: Feel free to send me a message and let me know.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're joining us on the line right now

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Speaker 2: to tell us more. Is the Airport Development Group's Executive

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Speaker 2: General Manager of Airports, Rob Port.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Rob, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Rob?

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Speaker 2: How did things go? Firstly over the easter break? Do

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Speaker 2: you have any of those passenger numbers on hand?

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Speaker 3: Not necessary all of the numbers, but this is this stage, Katie.

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Speaker 3: But what we are seeing is about a five percent

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Speaker 3: increase in movements through the terminal. So we're actually seeing

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Speaker 3: some positive signs leading to leading to a bumper dry season.

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Speaker 1: Well that is good. That is hopefully a really good sign.

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Speaker 2: Rob.

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Speaker 1: Tell us have we got a lot of people sort

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Speaker 1: of booked?

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Speaker 2: And are you expecting a huge week this week as

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Speaker 2: we lead into those school days for public schools kicking

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Speaker 2: it on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, we are seeing, you know, some increases in

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Speaker 3: passing your numbers. And we're also seeing people take advantage

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Speaker 3: of the new airlines that have been introduced as well.

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Speaker 3: So certainly bonds are off the Sunny Coast and gold

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Speaker 3: in l Springs with new services to Perth and bonds

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Speaker 3: of services down there. So you know, the ADG group

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Speaker 3: is pointing this thing in the right direction. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: we just need everybody to take advantage of some time

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Speaker 3: out of the territory. But certainly those that would come

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Speaker 3: and visit what's to offer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So with those new routes, I mean, are they

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Speaker 2: being like, are they being really taken up by territories

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Speaker 2: quite popular?

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Speaker 3: Look, yeah, we are seeing a great response to BONDSA

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Speaker 3: and you know, people wanting to head to Goldie and

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Speaker 3: head down to the Sunshine Coast. And conversely we're seeing

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Speaker 3: the flights being the return flight being quite quite busy

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Speaker 3: as well. So yeah, look at it's an exciting time

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Speaker 3: and it's the right the right partner for us at

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Speaker 3: this point in time too, you know, to get people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really good news, I think, and particularly with

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Speaker 2: Bonza when it means that you can fly at a

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Speaker 2: reasonable rate.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a.

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Speaker 2: Real positive for a lot of Territorians and I do

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Speaker 2: hope that we sort of you know, that we see

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Speaker 2: them do well, so it gives people options.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all we want really is some options. And

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Speaker 3: you know, we've we've also talked about access to Singapore,

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Speaker 3: so Singapore Airlines ended their services and you know, later

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Speaker 3: later in the colossill do services through to Singapore. So

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Speaker 3: you know, we're gaining some momentum. We're really looking forward

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Speaker 3: to the to the next twelve months. But yeah, school

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Speaker 3: holidays and Easter is definitely definitely a busy time for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what's the advice for travelers? I mean, do

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Speaker 2: they need to get there a little bit early? Are

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Speaker 2: you expecting like in terms of the rush that you

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Speaker 2: see at Christmas time, is it comparable rob.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, leading into Easter at least these is always very busy.

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Speaker 3: But whenever you're traveling, particularly when it's the school highday

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Speaker 3: period or a long weekend period, definitely get to the

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Speaker 3: airport early. Take try and get here about ninety minutes

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Speaker 3: before your flight. The new KAOS system that we have

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Speaker 3: and the automatic bag drop has really seen all those

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Speaker 3: queues at at the checking counters, and checking really disappear,

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Speaker 3: so take advantage of that so you can move through

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Speaker 3: that part of the check in process smoothly, and then

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Speaker 3: then head upstairs to through screening and d upstairs into

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Speaker 3: you know, we're almost there with our new retail outlets upstairs.

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Speaker 3: A red Rooster was opened the other week and another

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Speaker 3: another offer Soul and Grain, which is a bar and food.

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Speaker 3: We'll be ready in the next couple of weeks as well.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, a lot's happening at the airport. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: what chip is to tips get here early so you

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Speaker 3: on the line so you can reserve your spot.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well good advice as well.

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Speaker 2: Hey Rob, I noticed as well there seems to be

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Speaker 2: some sort of additional shade structures over the over the

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Speaker 2: of work going on out.

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Speaker 1: There at the airport.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there certainly is, Katie. I think when I first

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Speaker 3: arrived in Dale and the first questions asked is you

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Speaker 3: know we're going to cover the car park and the

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Speaker 3: short term car park. That's the project that's under way.

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Speaker 3: The carp park immediately out of the front of the

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Speaker 3: terminal is in the process of being covered with lots

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Speaker 3: of shade sales, so that whole car park in the

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Speaker 3: next couple of weeks will be completely covered. So projection

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Speaker 3: for your cars convenient to the terminal. You know, we're

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Speaker 3: busy here doing lots of lots of work at the airport.

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Speaker 3: The resorts looks fantastic and the work continues. There lots

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Speaker 3: of lots of great stuff happening, and you know, we're

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Speaker 3: just proud to present a terminal, build a terminal that

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territorians deserve.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Rob, before I let you go this morning, what

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Speaker 2: is the latest on those way works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll know we're back into it again, or the

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Speaker 3: Department Defense are back into it, so they'll start again

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Speaker 3: at the end of this week. And yeah, we're working

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Speaker 3: together to ensure that when it gets to dry, when

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Speaker 3: we really need you know, all the people come to visit,

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Speaker 3: that the amount of runway or the runway is available,

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Speaker 3: is ready to go. So we should should get the

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Speaker 3: best out of our dry season. And of course that

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Speaker 3: also coincides with Diamond Storm and Pitch Black, so we've

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Speaker 3: got a big, big season of exercises. So yeah, a

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Speaker 3: busy year, but we wouldn't have it any other way.

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Speaker 2: And are we sort of expecting much disruption to you know,

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Speaker 2: to passenger flights as a result of those works this,

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Speaker 2: you know, over the next few months.

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Speaker 3: No, Look, I think what we've been able to do

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Speaker 3: is put a plan in front of all of the

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Speaker 3: airlines for the year and they've been able to make

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Speaker 3: some adjustments to to shedules and the like. So yep,

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Speaker 3: there will be definitely be some impacts. We'll see some

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Speaker 3: services that won't come back this year because of the

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Speaker 3: because of the runway. However, most of the airlines have

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Speaker 3: been able to work around it.

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Speaker 1: Do we know which services won't come back this year?

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Speaker 3: Well, the only one that springs to mind is is

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Speaker 3: a direct service to Camera which is a seasonal service. Right,

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Speaker 3: they won't make it back this year. But I've got

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Speaker 3: to say, you know that the majority of the airlines

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Speaker 3: you've been able to work around, work around the work

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Speaker 3: so that we will continue to continue to operate.

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Speaker 2: Well, that direct service to Canberra will that will that

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Speaker 2: will impact the politicians?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Is it a very popular flight?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, it has you know, as a former Territorium

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Speaker 3: from Canberra. Yeah, yeah, I'll certainly miss it this year,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, look it's it's a positive service and again

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Speaker 3: it's a seasonal service that people take of any job.

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Speaker 3: So you're getting out of the cold winter in Canberra

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Speaker 3: up to the warm Northern territory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, Ron Porter, good to speak with you as always, mate,

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Kattie, thank you