Fast facts
Location
- The airport is 21 kilometres from Auckland's central business district - approximately 35 minutes by motor vehicle.
Opened
- First day of operations: 24 November 1965
- Officially opened: 29 January 1966
Operational
- No curfew
- Operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Land area
- Total freehold land of approximately 1,500 hectares. 363 hectares available for property development.
Shopping outlets
- Approximately 60 outlets in the passenger terminals
Terminals
- International terminal - 14 airbridge stands (including two which are A380 capable), 10 remote stands, with additional capacity possible
- Domestic terminal - 8 airbridge stands, 12 gate stands, 4 remote stands
Car parks
Status
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Voted one of the top 10 airports in the world in the 2009 Skytrax World Airport Survey, and voted best airport in the Australia/Pacific region.
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Largest and busiest airport in New Zealand
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Second busiest airport for international passengers in Australasia
Employees
- Auckland Airport has 321 operating staff (over 12,000 people work in the airport area)
Passengers
- Over 70 per cent of all international visitors to New Zealand arrive and depart from Auckland Airport. Over 35,000 passengers are processed every day. Annually there are 13 million travellers passing through the airport, 7.4 million are international travellers, 5.6 million are domestic.
Aircraft
- 100 international flights and 300 domestic flights are processed every day
- The airport looks after 22 international airlines - 18 passenger carriers, and 4 freight liners.
- Auckland Airport connects to 32 destinations worldwide
- Annually the airport handles over 156,781 aircraft movements
- 200,000 tonnes of high value freight are moved each year.
Runway
- Single runway (23L/05R) and associated taxiways and aprons
- Stand-by runway (05L/23R) which is usually the main taxiway
- Latitude 37° 00' 29" south
- Longitude 174° 47' 30" east
- Direction 051/231 magnetic
- Length 3,635 metres
- Width 75 metres (including 45m structural width and two 15m shoulders)
Aprons and taxiways
- Apron surface and strength - concrete; PCN 65/R/B/W/T
- Taxiway width, surface and strength - 30-44m concrete; PCN 65/R/B/W/T
Emergency services
The emergency service team has a variety of rescue vehicles that carry firefighting, rescue extrication and communications equipment.
- Rescue tender 1 - Spartan Charger 4x4 (pump rescue tender)
- Rescue tenders 2/3/4/5 - Mills Tui Stryker 6 (major foam tender)
- Rescue tender 6 - Stryker 6-11000 (major foam tender)
- Rescue fire control - Mitsubishi Challenger (command control vehicle)
- Water tender - ERF
- Jet boat - 306hp Volvo Penta diesel engine with a Hamilton 271 jet unit
- Two lancer inflatable boats - 60hp Yamaha outboard
- Hovercraft - Griffin 2000 TDX powered by a 355hp Deutz turbo-charged air-cooled engine
Airlines
- Aerolineas Argentinas
- Air Canada*
- Air New Zealand
- Air Pacific
- Air Tahiti Nui
- Air Vanuatu, Aircalin
- American Airlines*
- Asiana Airlines*
- Austrian Airlines*
- British Airways*
- Cathay Pacific
- Emirates
- EVA Air
- Japan Airlines*
- Jetstar Airways
- KLM Royal Dutch*
- Korean Air
- Lan Airlines
- Lufthansa Airlines*
- Malaysia Airlines
- Mexicana*
- Pacific Blue
- Polynesian Blue
- Qantas Airways
- Royal Brunei Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- Thai Airways
- United Airlines*
- V- Australia*
* Code share