A second planeload of Australian Olympians have arrived in the Top End from Tokyo to quarantine in Darwin's Howard Springs facility.
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The Qantas charter flight touched down in Darwin on Monday evening, carrying 97 Olympic athletes including members of the canoe/kayak, cycling, women's water polo and basketball teams.
They will join around 115 Olympians and support staff who arrived in Darwin from Tokyo last week.
Gold medallist swimmers Ariarne Titmus and Emma McKeon were among the first cohort of Olympians to arrive in Darwin in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.
Other athletes in the cohort included Australia's women's rugby sevens team, boxers, cyclists and athletics team members.
All athletes have to undertake 14 days supervised quarantine in the Howard Springs facility.
An Airport Development Group spokesperson said a number of precautions were taken to keep the Olympians separate from the general public as they moved through the airport.
"All health, security and baggage screening and processing were undertaken by the appropriate local and federal agencies in a secure and separate area on the ground floor of the DIA terminal, before the athletes were transferred to the Howard Springs facility for quarantine," they said.
"Significant works have been completed at the terminal to achieve physical and atmospheric separation of the screening and processing area."
It comes after the Darwin Airport unveiled the $1 million upgrades to its international section last week, which will allow for 500-600 extra Australians to be repatriated per fortnight.
Repatriation flights previously arrived in Darwin via the Royal Australian Air Force base.
"We believe that bringing more Aussies home is very important and these changes will give that result," Airport Development Group Executive General Manager Rob Porter said.
"The area is now secure and separate, providing a controlled area for processing of repatriation passengers by the appropriate local and federal agencies."
"In moving the processing of repatriation passengers to the DIA terminal we have not compromised the safety of terminal users or our community."
Since repatriation flights began last October, more than 10,600 people have been flown to Darwin to complete two weeks quarantine at Howard Springs.