Passenger flights could return to Illawarra airport: Shellharbour council

Kate McIlwain
Updated February 6 2017 - 6:18pm, first published 4:30pm
The first flight out of Albion Park in 2005, when a passenger service last started operating from the Illawarra.
The first flight out of Albion Park in 2005, when a passenger service last started operating from the Illawarra.

The return of domestic commuter flights from the Illawarra is on the cards, with Shellharbour councillors set to examine whether there is demand and viability for regular passenger flights from Albion Park airport.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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