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    "addressCountry": "Australia",
    "addressLocality": "Thylungra"
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  "code": "TYG",
  "connection_tips": "Thylungra Airport is a remote private station strip in southwestern Queensland used for cattle station operations and chartered medical or supply flights. Operationally, a pre-arranged pickup or host contact is the useful backup, because the airport is really the handoff into Thylungra rather than a place to wait around. The meaningful alternates are Sydney Kingsford Smith, which is why the backup plan matters more than the terminal amenities. Scheduled service is carried by Qantas, so the first bank of the day is the one to watch. In practice, that means the airport works as Thylungra's time-saving link to the rest of Australia.\n\nThere are no public commercial airline services or terminal facilities. When delays ripple through the schedule, a pre-arranged pickup or host contact is the useful backup, because the airport is really the handoff into Thylungra rather than a place to wait around. The meaningful alternates are Sydney Kingsford Smith, which is why the backup plan matters more than the terminal amenities. Scheduled service is carried by Qantas, so the first bank of the day is the one to watch. In practice, that means the airport works as Thylungra's time-saving link to the rest of Australia.\n\nAny chartered flights arriving here must be fully self-sufficient for all ground support, and prior landing permission from the station management is mandatory. At street level, a pre-arranged pickup or host contact is the useful backup, because the airport is really the handoff into Thylungra rather than a place to wait around. The meaningful alternates are Sydney Kingsford Smith, which is why the backup plan matters more than the terminal amenities. Scheduled service is carried by Qantas, so the first bank of the day is the one to watch. In practice, that means the airport works as Thylungra's time-saving link to the rest of Australia.",
  "country": "Australia",
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  "frequent_traveler_tip": [
    "Check latest schedules when connecting through Thylungra Airport.",
    "Check your flight status before leaving for the airport.",
    "Allow extra time during peak travel periods at this airport.",
    "Keep important documents easily accessible at this airport.",
    "Download your airline's mobile app for updates at this airport."
  ],
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  "iataCode": "TYG",
  "icao": "YTHY",
  "international": false,
  "last_modified": "June 2026",
  "last_updated": "2026-03-30",
  "latitude": -26.093047,
  "layover_planner_info": "Limited amenities; arrange layover needs in advance.",
  "longitude": 143.45136,
  "mct_domestic_to_domestic": 45,
  "mct_domestic_to_international": 90,
  "mct_interline": 120,
  "mct_international_to_domestic": 90,
  "mct_international_to_international": 120,
  "missed_connection_help": "Contact airline service desk for missed connections.",
  "name": "Thylungra Airport",
  "region": "Oceania",
  "related_airports": [
    {
      "code": "SYD",
      "name": "Sydney Kingsford Smith"
    }
  ],
  "terminal_info": "Thylungra Airport (TYG/YTHY) serves the historic 2,820-square-kilometer Thylungra Station in Queensland's Channel Country at 540 feet elevation, positioned on Kyabra Creek tributary of Cooper Creek approximately 101 kilometers northwest of Quilpie. This private pastoral airstrip, taking its name from the Buntamurra phrase 'thillung gurra' meaning permanent water, provides essential aviation access to one of Australia's significant sheep and cattle operations established by pioneer Patrick Durack in 1868.\n\nNo terminal facilities or public infrastructure exist at this station airstrip, which operates exclusively for property management, livestock operations, and authorized access supporting 45,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle grazing across open downs flood-out country with black soils, Mitchell grass plains, and gidyea-mulga bushland. All operations require prior permission from station management now controlled by George Scott, who acquired the property for $10.5 million in 2008 as part of an aggregation including neighboring Milo, Budgerygar, and Arleun stations.\n\nOperational characteristics adapt to Channel Country's extreme conditions where temperatures exceed 45\u00b0C in summer, flooding can isolate the station for weeks during rare rain events, and dust storms reduce visibility without warning across this semi-arid landscape. The airstrip enables mustering operations, veterinary services, wool transport coordination, and critically important Royal Flying Doctor Service evacuations from this remote location between Quilpie and Windorah, where the nearest medical facilities lie over 100 kilometers away on often impassable dirt roads.\n\nStrategic importance reflects Queensland's pastoral heritage, maintaining productive agriculture on marginal lands through aviation connectivity that enables modern station management across vast distances. The facility perpetuates a legacy dating to 1868 when Durack brothers pioneered cattle runs before transitioning to sheep, later inspiring Mary Durack's classic 'Kings in Grass Castles' chronicling their epic overland cattle drives from Thylungra to establish Kimberley stations, cementing this property's place in Australian pastoral mythology.",
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}