List of the busiest airports in New Zealand

This is a list of the busiest airports in New Zealand by passengers and by aircraft movements. Auckland airport is the busiest airport in the country. The other main airports are for the nation's capital Wellington, for the city of Christchurch and for the tourism centre of Queenstown.

2014 Passenger statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Passengers
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland15,062,085[1]
2. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch5,709,272[2]
3. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington5,437,286[3]
4. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown1,248,878[4]
5. Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin853,097 [5]
6. Nelson AirportNSNNelsonTBA
7. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North484,890[6]
8. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier456,672[7]
9. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth343,572[8]
10. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton294,396[9]
11.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill281,811[10]
12.Blenheim AirportBHEBlenheim237,162[11]
13.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua215,276[12]

2013 Passenger statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Passengers
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland14,862,485[13]
2. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch5,576,821[14]
3. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington5,373,622[3]
4. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown1,215,526 [15]
5. Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin857,951[5]
6. Nelson AirportNSNNelson767,298[16]
7. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier451,128[17]
8. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North445,147[18]
9. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth332,178[19]
10. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton306,000[20]
11.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill280,000[21]
12.Blenheim AirportBHEBlenheim227,886[11]
13.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua217,545[12]

2012 Passenger statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Passengers
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland 14,160,640[22]
2. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch5,485,023[23]
3. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington5,191,729[24]
4. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown 1,156,250[25]
5. Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin853,650[26]
6. Nelson AirportNSNNelson776,448[27]
7. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North449,318[28]
8. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier440,704[29]
9. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton354,000[30]
10. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth321,337[31]
11.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill285,000[32]
12.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua226,795[33]
13.Blenheim AirportBHEBlenheim221,707[11]

2011 Passenger statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Passengers
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland 13,703,043[34]
2. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch5,592,529[35]
3. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington5,135,000[36]
4. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown 966,574[34]
5. Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin776,508[26]
6. Nelson AirportNSNNelson758,250[37]
7. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North449,090[38]
8. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier431,903[39]
9. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton362,000[40]
10. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth300,960[31]
11.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill281,633[41]
12.Tauranga AirportTRGTauranga245,000[42]
13.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua227,578[43]
14.Blenheim AirportBHEBlenheim212,179[11]

2013 Total Movement statistics

This list includes IFR, VFR and International movements, It is from Airways NZ movement data.[44]

Rank Airport IATA Location Movements
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland157,095
2. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton135,404
3. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch107,822
4. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington101,161
5. Tauranga AirportTRGTauranga70,450
6. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North55,960
7. Nelson AirportNSNNelson45,677
8. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown 43,012
9. Kapiti Coast AirportPPQKapiti Coast 31,241
10. RNZAF Base OhakeaOHAOhakea28,807
11. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth24,910
12. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier 24,386
13.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill23,058
14.Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin22,758
15.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua22,532

2012 Total Movement statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Movements
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland155,903
2. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton128,744
3. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch108,757
4. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington102,454
5. Tauranga AirportTRGTauranga72,652
6. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North67,395
7. Nelson AirportNSNNelson48,073
8. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown 43,776
9. Kapiti Coast AirportPPQKapiti Coast 33,702
10. RNZAF Base OhakeaOHAOhakea30,959
11. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth30,773
12.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill28,491
13.Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin25,328
14. Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier 25,242
15.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua22,092

2011 Total Movement statistics

Rank Airport IATA Location Movements
1. Auckland International AirportAKLAuckland156,484
2. Christchurch International AirportCHCChristchurch121,112
3. Hamilton International AirportHLZHamilton110,419
4. Wellington International AirportWLGWellington105,585
5. Tauranga AirportTRGTauranga74,400
6. Palmerston North International AirportPMRPalmerston North65,708
7. RNZAF Base OhakeaOHAOhakea55,726
8. Nelson AirportNSNNelson50,094
9. Queenstown International AirportZQNQueenstown 41,769
10. New Plymouth AirportNPLNew Plymouth32,791
11.Invercargill AirportIVCInvercargill30,840
12.Dunedin International AirportDUDDunedin29,229
13.Hawkes Bay AirportNPENapier 27,322
14.Rotorua International AirportROTRotorua22,682

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