About Queenstown Airport

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Queenstown Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, and serves the resort town of Queenstown. The airport is 8 km (5.0 mi) from the Queenstown CBD. The airport handled 2.25 million passengers as of 2018[4] making it the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.

The airport consists of two runways, and has a single-level terminal building with nine gates.

Queenstown Airport has a single terminal which handles both international and domestic flights. It has been expanded several times since the 1990s to cope with the introduction of international flights and the rapid increase in passenger numbers.

The terminal consists of a single level and does not utilise jet bridges meaning that all access between the terminal and planes entails walking across the apron. An expansion of the international departures area in 2015 included the construction of a mezzanine level to allow for the possible future provision of jet bridges.

Domestically, Air New Zealand connects Queenstown with Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch while Jetstar Airways operates services to Auckland and Wellington. Auckland & Wellington are serviced with Airbus A320 aircraft, flights to Christchurch are operated by a mix of A320 and ATR 72 aircraft.

International flights have grown rapidly over recent years and year-round services operate to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Four airlines operate to these ports: Air New Zealand, Jetstar Airways, Qantas and Virgin Australia. International flights are operated on Airbus A320 or Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Winter season is a very busy one with over 59 direct flights arriving from East Coast Australia on average per week during the peak winter months.

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