Olympic Dam Airport
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Olympic Dam Airport is an airport
in Olympic Dam
, South Australia
. It is planned that the airport be relocated due to the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. The appropriate location and timing are to be determined.
s served in financial year 2009-2010.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
in Olympic Dam
Olympic Dam, South Australia
Olympic Dam is a mining centre in South Australia located some 550 km NNW of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is the site of an extremely large iron oxide copper gold deposit producing copper, uranium, gold and silver. The site hosts an underground mine as well as an...
, South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
. It is planned that the airport be relocated due to the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. The appropriate location and timing are to be determined.
Statistics
Olympic Dam Airport was ranked 52nd in Australia for the number of revenue passengerRevenue passenger
A revenue passenger is someone who has paid the transport operator for her or his trip. That excludes non-paying passengers such as airline employees flying on free or nearly-free passes, babies and children who do not have a seat of their own, etc...
s served in financial year 2009-2010.