Darwin and Townsville passengers set to pay for government IT blowout

Derek Barry
Updated May 13 2018 - 9:25am, first published 9:24am
Passengers on the Mount Isa - Townsville route could be slugged with extra costs under secret air traffic control plans to contain an IT costs blow-out. Photo: Townville Airport
Passengers on the Mount Isa - Townsville route could be slugged with extra costs under secret air traffic control plans to contain an IT costs blow-out. Photo: Townville Airport

Passengers in Townsville and Darwin airports are likely be slugged with additional charges to subsidise a computer rollout fiasco between two federal government departments.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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