Qantas to build new Club at Perth Airport as Joyce sees no end to boom Qantas has pledged to invest millions in WA as it moves to capitalise on resources sector traffic. QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce said the national carrier saw no signs of an end to the mining boom in Western Australia. Mr Joyce told a West Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry lunch in Perth today that Qantas saw continuing growth in the mining state off a high base. "We are growing our intra-WA business this year by about 22 per cent and that is largely because of the resource contracts we have secured," he said. "These resource companies have always led the way in building infrastructure, developing skills and improving productivity to compete in global markets."" Qantas faces competition from Virgin Australia, which recently acquired Perth-based regional and charter airline Skywest, but Mr Joyce said the group continued to have a "big forward-looking agenda"" in WA. This included growing network and capacity in the state and integrating it seamlessly into the broader domestic and global networks, investing in infrastructure and promoting the state in the national and international tourism markets, he said. The airline announced earlier today that it would build a new Qantas Club in Perth Airport's Terminal 3 as part of multimillion-dollar investment that will bring spending on its facilities at the rapidly- growing airport to $100m over the past four years. Qantas currently occupies Terminal 4 and will progressively move into terminal 3 after the departure of Skywest to the former Terminal WA and the pending relocation Virgin Australia to a facility under construction at the airport's international terminal. The announcement came as the airline this week deployed an additional widebody Airbus A330 on flights to the east coast to ensure all Perth-Sydney and Perth-Melbourne weekday services were operated by that aircraft type. The airline has also boosted cabin service on its aircraft with the introduction of an "international standard" a la carte menu and deployed bigger aircraft on its intra-WA routes to meet demand from the resources and mining sector. The Qantas boss said the airline's investment was a vital boost to the local economy. "In the next few weeks we will start our expansion into Terminal 3 and from late 2014 Qantas Domestic, Jetstar, QantasLink and some Network Aviation flights will operate from the same precinct,"" he said. "Sole access to these terminals will provide Qantas customers with a seamless airport experience."" The first flights to operate Terminal 3 will be intra-WA and charter services and will be followed in coming months by Jetstar. Mr Joyce said Qantas and QantasLink, which operate more than 280 return flights with 75000 regional seats each week in WA, would deploy bigger planes on key routes such as Exmouth and Karratha and add services to Geraldton. The group has more than 30 aircraft operating in the west, ranging from the A330s to Boeing 717s and Fokker 100s. He also revealed the airline and Tourism WA were in the final stages of completing a multimillion-dollar joint marketing agreement to be announced in the near future.