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New Plymouth Airport (IATA: NPL, ICAO: NZNP) serves the city of New
Plymouth, and the surrounding region of Taranaki. It is located on the west
coast of New Zealand's North Island and is 11 km from the city centre, on State
Highway 3 north to Auckland, and 4 km from the outer suburb/satellite town of
Bell Block.
New Plymouth Airport is serviced by
Air New Zealand with
daily flights to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Jetstar Airways commenced
daily services between New Plymouth and Auckland on 1 February 2016.
Jetstar Airways had
originally planned to conduct 27 weekly return flights between New Plymouth and
Auckland, however only 20 return flights weekly were offered. The
Jetstar Airways flights
were operated by Qantas Link's
Eastern Australia Airlines.
Jetstar cancelled those services at the end of November 2019.
From 29 September 2017, Originair
began direct flights between New Plymouth and Nelson, New Zealand. On 30
September 2018, Originair
launched direct flights between New Plymouth and Napier, New Zealand. The
airline provided daily flights between the two cities. The company's British
Aerospace 18-seat Jetstream aircraft flew the route and the company was adding
another Jetstream to its operations to cover contracted charter flights, tours
and maintenance coverage.
Originair suspended those
services at the end of November 2019 until the new terminal opened. Also, the
handling company, Swissport, who has carrying out check-in and tarmac services
for both Jetstar and Originair, terminated the service at the same time.
In terms of passenger numbers, it was the 9th busiest airport in New Zealand in
2016, with 411,661 people flying from or to the airport, a 20.3 percent increase
on 2015 statistics. Jetstar's new regional services to New Plymouth were
responsible for the significant increase, according to airport management.
Hence, more people flew to New Plymouth than other cities with larger
populations such as Hamilton and Tauranga.
In October 2009, New Plymouth Airport was voted as the best regional airport in
New Zealand and in September 2020 the airport was voted 2nd place in the Best
Regional Airport poll conducted by Newshub.
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