ZQN

Queenstown Airport

ICAO NZQN45.0192°S 168.7464°E357 m / 1,171 ftLarge airport
On the map

Queenstown Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is a large airport in Queenstown, Otago Region, New Zealand. It opened in Aug 1935. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,891 m (6,204 ft). In 2021 it handled 1.2 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1935–1935
AUG 1935
OpenedQueenstown Airport opens.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Over The Top HelicoptersAir WakatipuAir MilfordHeliworksMilford Air Terminal
05/23076° / 256° · LIT
LENGTH1,891 m6,204 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32165° / 345°
LENGTH890 m2,920 ftWIDTH10 m33 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
878K
967K
1.2M
1.2M
1.2M
1.4M
1.7M
1.9M
2.1M
2.3M
1.3M
1.2M
101112131415161718192021

Routes

9 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsAir New Zealand 6Jetstar Airways 6Qantas Airways 3Virgin Australia 3Glenorchy Air 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ZQN. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Queenstown Airport” (revision of 30 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.2M (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#767of 3,974 · #25 Oceania · #4 NZLongest runway1,891 m6,204 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,328of 29,823 · #162 Oceania · #10 NZElevation357 m1,171 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=15,366of 43,341 · #522 Oceania · #22 NZAgeOpened 19352026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=593of 15,079 · =22 Oceania · #3 NZRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · =28 NZ
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

6 channels
AFISFIS128.000
APPQueenstown Approach125.750
ATISQueenstown ATIS126.400
CTAFCTAF118.100
DLVQueenstown Delivery121.900
TWRQueenstown Tower118.100