* Cairns International Airport, IATA code

* 1972-95 -- expanded into the Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, and Ben Gurion Airport ( Israel )

Its main base was at Cairns International Airport, with a secondary hub at Sydney Airport.

Cairns Airport goes back to 1928 when Tom McDonald started flying his de Havilland Gipsy Moth off a sand ridge near the present airport.

In January 2010, Auckland International Airport Limited announced plans to purchase almost 25 per cent of North Queensland Airports ( NQA ), operator of the airports at Cairns and Mackay, for about $ 167 million.

The airport has two passenger terminals on the eastern side of the airport on reclaimed mangrove swamp They are approximately north from Cairns Central Shopping Centre and situated on Airport Avenue off Sheridan Street ( Captain Cook Highway ).

Mount Isa Airport has regular daily services to Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville, as well as once-weekly services to Darwin and the Gold Coast, in addition to other services to remote Outback communities in western Queensland.

The nearby Connellan Airport makes it possible to reach the area in a few hours from Perth, Sydney, Melbourne or Cairns, compared to five hours by car from Alice Springs, the nearest major town, 428 kilometres northeast.

The city is served by Mackay Airport, from which Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia offer flights to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, as well as to regional destinations such as Geelong, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Gladstone.

* Queensland Section – Brisbane Airport, Bundaberg, Cairns International Airport, Charleville, Longreach, Mount Isa, Rockhampton and Townsville Airport

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Its main operations base was Townsville International Airport, with hubs at Cairns International Airport, Brisbane Airport and Mount Isa Airport.

Its main base was Cairns Airport, with its operating hub at Horn Island Airport.

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Chile is a strong proponent of pressing ahead on negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ) and is active in the WTO's Doha round of negotiations, principally through its membership in the G-20 and Cairns Group.

Costa Rica also is a member of the Cairns Group which is pursuing global agricultural trade liberalization in the World Trade Organization and helping to maintain the proper economy level in Costa Rica.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

The cassowary is usually found in a rainforest of a sort but in Australia mostly Northern Queensland in places as in Cairns or The Great Daintree Rainforest.

For example, the executive head of the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, which is a campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney is a Rector, as is the head of the Cairns campus of James Cook University, based at Townsville.

Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group — countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations — and in the APEC forum.

Still trade is quite small, In 2002 The Hon Mark Vaile visited Santa Cruz for the Cairns Group meeting.

Daintree is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane and northwest of Cairns.

Davies Creek National Park is in Far North Queensland, Australia, 1392 km northwest of Brisbane, 20 km south west of Cairns.

Fitzroy Island National Park is a gazetted protected area covering Fitzroy Island, Queensland ( also called Koba or Gabar ), a continental island located 22 kilometres east of Cairns, Queensland ( Australia ).

Fitzroy Island is serviced by the Fitzroy Flyer, a power catamaran operating out of the Marlin Marina in Cairns.

It is 27 km offshore from Cairns ( 1394 km northwest of Brisbane ), Queensland, can be accessed by a choice of boats leaving daily from Cairns, and is reputed to be the most visited ( popular ) island National Park within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Cairns a Far North Queensland provincial city is 2. 5 hours drive north from Cardwell.

The Jardine River National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 2137 km northwest of Brisbane and about 900 km northwest of Cairns, on the tip of Cape York Peninsula.

Lakefield is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1, 707 km northwest of Brisbane and 340 km north-west of Cairns by road, on Cape York Peninsula.

Michaelmas and Upolu Cays is a national park in Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane and east of Cairns.

South Island is a national park in North Queensland ( Australia ), 692 km northwest of Brisbane and the island is part of the Lizard Island Group and is South of Lizard Island situated 270 km north of Cairns, Queensland.

Possible new international flights to Asia and New Zealand, and possible new domestic flights to Darwin, Cairns and Perth have been proposed.

Jacksons has international flights to Brisbane, Cairns, Sydney, Honiara, Nadi, Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The university has three Australian campuses, located in Townsville, Brisbane and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore.

During the 1970s Australia's two domestic airlines Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett provided regular scheduled services to most Australian capital cities and also Papua New Guinea, while in 1975 Air Niugini became the first international airline to commence flights out of Cairns, to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.

Christopher Lance Cairns, ONZM ( born 13 June 1970 ) is a former all-rounder who played for the New Zealand international cricket team, the Black Caps, and is son of former New Zealand cricketer Lance Cairns.

The game was the last international match played by Chris Cairns – NZC handed out life-size cardboard masks of his face to patrons as they entered the ground.

Although playing in his usual spirited fashion, Cairns failed to take a wicket, nor score a run, in this his final international game.

At present there are five campuses located within Central Queensland ( Rockhampton, Mackay, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Emerald ), campuses in Noosa and the Gold Coast in South East Queensland, capital city campuses in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne which cater to a mix of international and domestic students, a study centre in Cairns, a research site in Adelaide, South Australia and a delivery site in Geraldton, Western Australia.

In 2000 he was a made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the reform of international trade as foundation Chairman of the Cairns Group, to the reform of the federal budget, education and training, and to the Australian Parliament.

Townsville Airport was the first Australian regional city airport to be granted international airport status commencing in 1980. International traffic grew substantially through the early 1980s then receded however as a result of airline market restructuring, and significant competition with Cairns Airport for regional tourism.

The friendly rivalry between Townsville and Cairns with respect to hosting international flights was becoming more serious as the airlines started to rationalise services.

Cairns Airport campaigned with a major proposal for improved airport facilities, including a separate international terminal capable of accommodating significantly greater passenger numbers than Townsville's terminal and Cairns ' original terminal.

In 1993 when Cairns ' new terminal opened, all the airlines, except Qantas, Ansett, Cathay Pacific and Garuda, stopped international flights to Townsville, and eventually by 1995 the remaining airlines ceased international flights to Townsville.