What's in store for Queensland's mining-centric airports?
With commodity prices starting to pick up again and talks about increases in mine production volumes, I thought examining the relationship between coal and passenger traffic at Queensland’s resource focused airports would be helpful and hopefully yield some interesting findings. To provide some background for those unfamiliar with the sector, Queensland is one of Australia’s, if not the world’s, largest coal-producing regions. The Bowen Basin, shown in blue on the map, is the