Plan ahead: Allow extra travel time to Melbourne Airport

PSA: If you’re heading to the airport over January to early March 2025, we encourage you to allow an extra 30 minutes for your journey due to potential delays caused by construction works in the Terminal 123 forecourt. If you're picking up or dropping off loved ones, consider using Exit 19A and the Terminal 4 Car Park to avoid congestion in the Terminal 123 forecourt. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Here will find our regular community newsletter, which keeps you informed of our operations and projects, runway plans and other related news.

Melbourne Airport is an important hub for Australia’s international and domestic networks and is currently seeking federal government approval to build a new north-south runway, which will result in changes to flight paths around the city. It is important that we keep you up to date with what is happening and that we continue to hear what is important to you.

Previous community newsletter editions

Edition 4

January 2024

Edition 3

April 2023

Edition 2

December 2022

Edition 1

August 2022

Melbourne Airport has undertaken safety-critical maintenance works to replace approximately 2,500 metres of asphalt on the existing north-south runway (Runway 16/34). Originally scheduled to finish by September 2023, all works were completed in late March 2024.