WRE

Whangarei Airport

ICAO NZWR35.7693°S 174.3637°E41 m / 133 ftMedium airport
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Whangarei Airport (IATA: WRE, ICAO: NZWR) is a medium airport in Whangarei, Northland Region, New Zealand. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,097 m (3,599 ft).

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Whangārei Airport TerminalSunair Terminal
06/24081° / 261° · LIT
LENGTH1,097 m3,599 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32164° / 344°
LENGTH475 m1,558 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

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

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from WRE
Passenger2
ZUSunair4NZAir New Zealand1

Former hub of Eagle Airways.

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,097 m3,599 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=12,298of 29,858 · =1,042 Oceania · #42 NZElevation41 m133 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,775of 43,403 · #1,447 Oceania · #110 NZRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =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

3 channels
AFISCHRISTCHURCH FIS124.900
AWIBAWIB119.800
CTAFCTAF118.600