Rarotonga International Airport

ICAO NCRG21.2027°S 159.8060°W6 m / 19 ftLarge airport

Rarotonga International Airport (IATA: RAR, ICAO: NCRG) is a large airport in Avarua, Cook Islands. It opened in 1975. It has one runway, 2,328 m (7,638 ft) long, concrete.

Timeline

1 event · 1975–1975

1975

OpenedRarotonga International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH2,328 m7,638 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEConcrete

Routes

11 destinations · 5 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RAR. From the Wikipedia article “Rarotonga International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

4 airlines · destinations from RAR

Hub airlines1

GZAir Rarotonga7

Passenger3

JQJetstar Airways3 VTAir Tahiti1 HAHawaiian Airlines1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from RAR. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway2,328 m7,638 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,004of 29,858 · #68 Oceania · #1 CK Elevation6 m19 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,533of 43,403 · =2,047 Oceania · #6 CK AgeOpened 19752026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,193of 15,079 · =125 Oceania · #1 CK Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =526 Oceania · =1 CK

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels

APPAPP118.100

RDORDO342.500

TWRTWR118.100