Queenstown International Airport

From Queenstown.net.nz

Queenstown Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, and serves the resort town of Queenstown, handling more than 600,000 airline scheduled passengers a year, which is growing rapidly.

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 1.1 International 1.2 Domestic 2 Weather 3 Video 4 External links 4.1 Aeronautical Charts 5 References

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The majority of scheduled flights are domestic, Which are operated by Air New Zealand, Mount Cook Airlines,Jet Star or Pacific Blue, with a few international flights weekly to Sydney. The winter ski seasons are busy with extra international flights being flown by Qantas (Boeing 737-800's) and Air New Zealand (Airbus A320's / Boeing 737-300's) Pacific Blue (Boeing 737-800's) and Jet Star (Airbus A320's. In September 2007 the airport completed a $31 million upgrade with increased terminal capacity and an extended apron for international flights. Weather permitting, there is substantial daily charter traffic of light aircraft (mostly Britten-Norman Islander, Cessna 206, Cessna 172) to Milford Sound and on sightseeing trips. Helicopters are also very active.

[edit] International

• Air New Zealand (Brisbane [seasonal], Melbourne [seasonal], Sydney)
• Qantas (Brisbane [seasonal], Melbourne [seasonal], Sydney)
• Pacific Blue operated by Virgin Blue ( Sydney )

[edit] Domestic

• Air New Zealand (Auckland, Christchurch)
• Mount Cook Airlines operated by Air New Zealand (Christchurch, Wellington [seasonal])
• Aspiring Air (Wanaka)
• Glenorchy Air (Glenorchy, Milford Sound, The Glaciers and Mount Cook)
• Jetstar operated by Qantas (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown )
• Pacific Blue
• Pacific Blue operated by Virgin Blue (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin )

[edit] Weather

Weather in Queenstown is typical for a temperate mountain environment. It neither has the rain of the west coast nor the consistently dry conditions of Central Otago but somewhere in between.

See: Daily flying conditions weather report

[edit] Video

Landing at Queenstown Airport

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• The airport is home to Wakatipu Aero Club and Glenorchy Air
• World Aero Data airport information for NZQN

[edit] Aeronautical Charts

• Queenstown Aerodrome
• Queenstown VFR Arrivals
• Queenstown Ground Movements
• Queenstown VFR Departures

Glenorchy Air provides flights to destinations around the South Island, from Queenstown and Glenorchy • More info

	Airports of New Zealand
Auckland | Christchurch | Dunedin | Hamilton | Invercargill | Palmerston North | Rotorua | Queenstown | Wellington

de:Flughafen Queenstown

[edit] References

This article uses material from Wikipedia, "Queenstown, New Zealand"