Update: August 2025

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the current round of community engagement. We’ve already received a significant amount of useful feedback and would like to now share additional information and clarifications in response to recent questions we’ve received. Please use the links below to download the relevant documents or browse the documents panel on the right of the main project page.

Arrivals over land, day and night (PDF 946KB) Relating to current preferred options 1.2 Arrivals over land from the north and west and 3.1 Arrivals over land for independent parallel runway operations, this document shows current and proposed flight paths for daytime and night-time arrivals. It provides more detail on how the arrivals to the long approach would connect to the legacy runway at night, including flight numbers for night-time only.

Flight path usage statistics (PDF 376KB) Prepared in response to a request from the Brisbane Airport Community Airspace Advisory Board (AAB), this document shows the average number of daytime weekday flights on each over land flight path. This is based on 2024 data.

Heat maps (PDF 546KB) These have been produced by Trax International based on actual track data for 2019 and 2024. The heat map for Package 3 shows how the 2024 data would look if all preferred options from Package 3 were implemented.

Departures over land: Relating to preferred options 1.1 Departures over land to the north and west and 2.1 Departures over land to the south and east, this clarification is particularly relevant for those communities overflown by departures from the new runway. Moving the eastbound flights from the current legacy runway path would reduce the number of flights over communities subject to departures from this runway, but would add those flights to new runway communities. This change is not proposed to add flights to new runway communities, though we note this is a consequence, but to facilitate proposed changes to over water arrivals from the south and east which will support greater use of SODPROPS when conditions permit. By realigning the arrival paths for standard operations to match the SODPROPS arrival paths, we can transition into the mode faster and thus increase its use.

Interactive mapping: Quick link to the Brisbane baseline model with interactive maps for Package 3 change proposals so you can compare them with the current flight paths. Click on the blue box labelled 'Change proposals' to see current options including noise contours.

Noise sharing: We added a new FAQ with a response to the question ‘What is noise sharing?’

Preliminary Environmental impact assessments

Preliminary Environmental impact assessments (PEIAs) are now available for Package 3 preferred options.

Unlike previously released environmental assessments, these have been conducted to support assessment of options that have not yet been designed in detail. These preliminary assessments will be reviewed and updated when detailed flight path designs have been decided upon. There are four PEIAs for Package 3:

Please note, these are technical documents that record internal processes conducted to support development and assessment of proposed flight path changes. There is no EIA for option 4. Departures over land at night as it is not a preferred option.

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