Hamilton Island Airport
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Hamilton Island Airport | |||
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IATA: HTI - ICAO: YBHM | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Public | ||
Operator | N/A | ||
Serves | Hamilton Island (Queensland) | ||
Elevation AMSL | 15 ft (5 m) | ||
Coordinates | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
14/32 | 5,591 | 1,704 | Asphalt |
For other uses, see Haiti.
Hamilton Island Airport (IATA: HTI, ICAO: YBHM) is the primary airport of the Whitsunday Islands Group, and airport of Hamilton Island. The airport is settled on mostly reclaimed land and due the island's tourism status, is occupied mostly and favoured by Australia's only two low-cost airlines, Jetstar Airways and Virgin Blue.
The Airport suffered heavily in 2001 with the demise of Ansett Australia and a year later in 2002 when a light aircraft crashed shortly after take off, killing 5 people, which closed the airport for a few days.
[edit] Airlines and Destinations
- Qantas
- Jetstar (Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney)
- QantasLink (Cairns)
- Virgin Blue (Brisbane)
[edit] External links
- Hamilton Island Tower
- World Aero Data airport information for YBHM