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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Jessica Belzycki

'Lack of awareness': airport losing local passengers to Sydney

Rendering of new terminal expansion at Newcastle Airport. Picture supplied by Newcastle Airport

NEWCASTLE Airport is fighting to win a bigger share of the passengers within its footprint who are flying down the highway to take off from Sydney.

A Deloitte study shows only about two thirds of the 3.92 million passenger flights in and out of the Williamtown airport's catchment in 2019 - the last full year before COVID-19 disruptions - were from Newcastle Airport.

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