Macquarie Airports (MAp) has reached agreement with Macquarie Capital (Macquarie) to revise the proposal to internalise the management of MAp, announced on 24 July 2009.

MAp will still implement the internalisation by acquiring the responsible entity for the two Australian trusts which form part of the MAp stapled security and by ending the advisory agreement with Macquarie Airports Limited, the third component of the MAp structure. However, rather than issuing 150 million new MAp stapled securities to Macquarie, at an issue price of A$2.30 (equivalent to A$345 million), MAp will make a cash payment of A$345 million to Macquarie.

Auckland International Airport Limited (Auckland Airport) has announced its annual results. Auckland Airport chairman, Tony Frankham, said, "The operating performance of the company in 2009 was pleasing in a challenging economic environment. Financially, our underlying net profit after tax of $105.9m is within the guidance range forecast last year, and operationally Auckland Airport takes tremendous pride in being recognised as one of the 10 best airports in the world, in the 2009 independent Skytrax World Airport awards."

Macquarie Airports foreign ownership level has increased to 35.7%. Up from the 35.2% previously advised.

The Launceston Airport Master Plan 2009 outlines the vision for the airport’s medium and long-term future. It includes plans for terminal development, transport access and other key developments. The Plan is updated every five years and is a requirement of the Commonwealth Airports Act 1996.

MAp has reached agreement with Macquarie Capital (Macquarie) to internalise the management of MAp. The agreement has been negotiated by Independent Board Committees on behalf of MAp security holders.

Auckland International Airport Limited (Auckland Airport) today announced that it has appointed Simon Robertson as its new chief financial officer reporting to Simon Moutter, chief executive. He will take up his new position in early August 2009.

The 2008/2009 financial year has seen continued passenger growth at Launceston Airport. Passenger traffic at Launceston Airport reached over 1.1 million for the first time in the airport’s 78 year history, an overall increase of two per cent, or an additional 19,000 passengers, compared to 2007/2008.

Australia’s aircraft parts manufacturing industry is set to gain easier access to the lucrative United States aviation market.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has reached agreement with the United States Federal Aviation Administration on extending an existing aviation ‘treaty’ level document to cover the manufacture of approved parts.

Delta Airlines and Tiger Airways will start flights out of Sydney Airport this Friday. Delta is the world’s largest airline and will commence a service from Sydney to Los Angeles.

Tiger will commence flying on the Sydney-Melbourne route. As well as being Australia’s busiest route, this city pairing is one of the busiest routes in the world with more than seven million passengers flying between the cities last year.

Qantas is secretly contracting foreign pilots while at the same time asking Australian pilots to consider voluntary redundancies, pilots have revealed. Australian pilots have been told by management there is a surplus of jobs, however just last week Qantas engaged foreign pilots and foreign aircraft to do freight runs between Australia and New Zealand.

Sydney Airport has completed the deleveraging announced in February. Sydney Airport's shareholders had decided to invest A$870m to deleverage the company’s capital structure by eliminating the term debt maturing in September and November 2009.

At that time, MAp stated that it expected its contribution to be between A$650m and A$780m. MAp’s final contribution was A$711m increasing MAp’s ownership interest in Sydney Airport to 74.0%.

The latest Qantas occurrence highlights the need for highly skilled, well-trained pilots, says the Australian and International Pilots Association. AIPA President Capt Barry Jackson said the event aboard QF68 was a result of convective turbulence and not an issue with the aircraft, but said pilot skill helped ensure the safety of the passengers onboard.

Sydney Airport has welcomed the Australian Government’s approval of its 20 year Master Plan
2009. The approved Master Plan outlines the vision for the operation and continued development of
the airport to 2029.

The Qantas pilot in command of the Jetstar flight JQ20 which encountered a cockpit fire yesterday morning, is an example of the benefit of a high level of training and expertise found in Australia’s airline pilots – something often taken for granted until an emergency occurs.

Embraer will exhibit the mock-up of its Phenom 300 light executive jet in Australia, for the first time. The chosen venues are Sydney, June 17-21, at Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, and Melbourne, June 24-28, at BMW Kings Way Showroom.

Auckland Airport announced today at TRENZ, the country’s biggest tourism trade event, that it has commenced promotional activity to support, maintain and develop new air services.

From today, Jetstar takes the reins from its parent company Qantas on the main trunk routes in New Zealand.

Auckland Airport has been voted the best airport in the Australia Pacific region, and the 10th best in the world, in the 2009 independent Skytrax World Airport awards released on 9 June.

Macquarie Airports (MAp) advises that its foreign ownership level has decreased to 33.8% from the 33.9% previously advised.

Auckland Airport is forecasting a Retail revenue forecast for FY10 in the range $90 - $93m which is below the current market consensus of around $104m.

Macquarie Airports (MAp) has agreed to tender its holding in Japan Airport Terminal (JAT) into JAT’s buyback tender offer. To reflect both the removal of JAT from proportionate earnings and the expected sustainable earnings of MAp’s businesses this year, MAp has amended its guidance for 2009 from 27.00 cents per stapled security to 21.00 cents per stapled security.

All MAp’s core airports showed an improved performance in April when compared with recent months. Sydney in particular enjoying traffic growth in the month

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is strengthening its oversight of the aviation industry across northern Australia.

Macquarie Airports (MAp) advises that its foreign ownership level has increased to 33.9% from 33.5% previously advised.

The beneficial impact of TICkETS, which are predominantly Australian-owned, continues to be incorporated into the calculation of the foreign ownership level. If this impact were to be excluded, MAp’s foreign ownership level would be 41.9%. MAp notes that the market has been advised that TICkETS will be redeemed as at 1 January 2010.

Macquarie Airports (MAp) has reported unaudited results for its core portfolio for the three months to 31 March 2009.

Brussels Airport[1] today announced its results for the three months to 31 March 2009[2], reporting EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) before specific items of €32.5 million, a decrease of 24.2% over the previous corresponding period (pcp).

The distinctive Jetstar aircraft, with their bright orange star, will be regularly touching down at New Zealand’s largest airport from tomorrow as the international carrier begins its new daily services between Auckland and Sydney (SYD) and Auckland and the Gold Coast (Coolangatta OOL).

Sydney Airport has successfully completed a $51 million program to upgrade airport ground lighting. The CEO of Sydney Airport, Russell Balding, said that the lighting system was an essential part of the airport’s aeronautical infrastructure and ensured the safety of aviation operations.

The third quarter passenger results have been solid for Launceston Airport after taking into account the leap year and later Easter impact in this period.

From early next week upgraded Qantas services will commence between Launceston and Melbourne when the larger and faster Dash-8 400 series aircraft is introduced.

Embraer delivered an EMBRAER 170 jet to Australia’s Darwin-based Airnorth. The airline is the launch customer of the EMBRAER 170 in Australia, and is now adding this new aircraft to its fleet. The jet will be operated by Airnorth under a lease with Jetscape, Inc., and comes from Jetscape’s firm orders.

Sydney Airport has welcomed Air Austral which next week will commence flying a twice weekly service between Sydney and Paris via Reunion Island.

Sydney Airport has welcomed Tiger Airways’ announcement that it will start flying from Sydney in July 2009.

Tiger Airways Australia will be expanding its network by adding the new Sydney-Melbourne route. The CEO of Sydney Airport, Russell Balding, said that this is another great win for Sydney.

“Sydney is Australia’s biggest tourist attraction and the extra choice Tiger Airways provides will give people from Melbourne an extra reason to visit Sydney.

Sydney Airport has had extensive and constructive discussions with the limousine industry and the associations representing the limousine drivers about the need to relocate their domestic waiting area.