Airports and Air Traffic Management

Airport information 

For decoding three-letter airport codes see Airline and Airport Code Search from IATA or World Airport Codes 

For information about destinations from a particular airport see FlightsFrom.com and seat capacity by time at individual airports see Airportinformation.com 

Airport news sources include:

• International Airport Review 

• Airport World - from ACI

New Zealand airports 

International airports are:

Slot coordination at AKL, WLG, CHC and ZQN is carried out by ACL International 

Scheduled international operations no longer operate out of:

• Palmerston North (PMR) - ceased in 2008 

• Hamilton (HLZ) - ceased in 2009 then restarted by Pacific Blue on 1 September 2009 but ceased again in October 2012

• Rotorua (ROT) - Air New Zealand commenced international operations in 2009 but these ceased in April 2015

• Dunedin (DUD) - ceased by Virgin Australia in March 2020.

Web sites for other New Zealand domestic airports with scheduled air services include:

Significant general aviation aerodromes include:

Wikipedia has a List of airports in New Zealand

Overseas airports 

International airports that have non-stop air services to New Zealand include:

Airport Coordination Australia provides slot coordination services for major Australian airports. 

Airports that used to have non-stop air services operating to New Zealand included:

An airport that once completed in late 2026 is likely to have non-stop air services to New Zealand is:

• Western Sydney (WSI)

Airports that used to have direct air services operating to New Zealand included:

Overseas airports not listed above that I have passed through include:

Air traffic management organisations 

Usually government owned, these air traffic management (ATM)/air navigation services provider (ANSP) organisations operate vital infrastructure for the air transport system. Working to ICAO standards, increasingly they and the aircraft are using satellite-based systems to aid air navigation.

Links to the overseas counterparts of Airways New Zealand:

Air traffic control industry organisations and sources of information include:

Global navigation satellite systems and SBAS

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Last updated on 18 January 2025