The Australian government has officially approved Brisbane Airport’s (BNE/YBBN) master plan, which features the construction of a third passenger terminal. Brisbane Airport plans to invest A$5 billion in infrastructure upgrades, partly to prepare for the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane. The plan includes building the new terminal and renovating the two existing ones.
The approved master plan “will ensure Brisbane Airport remains a world-class gateway as we invest more than A$5 billion just in the next five years,” BNE CEO Gert-Jan de Graaff said. BNE has previously said the new Terminal 3 (T3) will be “constructed and operational by the early 2030s.”
In the draft master plan, BNE said T3 will be located between the airport’s two parallel runways. The location “will result in optimal airfield access and reduce aircraft taxi times,” according to the master plan. BNE has not settled on a specific size or initial capacity for the new terminal. BNE handled 25 million passengers in 2025, the airport’s busiest year ever. De Graaff said the master plan paves the way for the airport to have the “capacity to handle more than 50 million passengers in two decades.”
According to the master plan, “T3 will incrementally expand over the coming decades to meet growth passenger forecasts, with the size of T3 informed through terminal planning studies, airline community interests, precinct commercial opportunities and consideration of the customer experience.”
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