The airport has bolstered the numbers of security and customer service staff during school holidays as it expects more than 2.1 million passengers.
The boss of the Australian Airports Association has called on the federal government to make Australia more attractive to global airlines.
Passengers travelling through Melbourne Airport on Wednesday face major disruptions as a strike could leave planes without fuel.
Australia’s busiest airports are confident there will be no repeat of the chaos that marred travel earlier this year.
Several flights were delayed and passengers’ Christmas travel plans were disrupted after two storms hit on Thursday afternoon,grounding planes and flooding the terminals at Tullamarine.
Two baggage handlers caught on camera hurling luggage onto a conveyor belt at Melbourne Airport have been sacked after an investigation into the widely shared footage.
Airport firefighters across the country will walk off the job for four hours next Friday morning as part of strike action their union claimed would significantly disrupt travel schedules.
Between them,three men crammed more than 130,000 illicit cigarettes into suitcases and tried to smuggle them through Melbourne Airport to sell on the black market. But they were nabbed in a Border Force crackdown.
30 years ago,three men were injured,one seriously,when a man opened fire at the crowded international terminal at Melbourne Airport.
Just 65 per cent of Virgin’s flights arrived on time in October,according to government data,slipping behind the Qantas group’s 74 per cent and Regional Express’s 68 per cent.
The federal infrastructure adviser has urged the Albanese and Victorian governments to consider delaying the $13 billion Melbourne Airport Rail project over concerns about potential cost blow-outs and low patronage in its first decade of operation.