AYQ

Ayers Rock Connellan Airport

ICAO YAYE25.1859°S 130.9770°E496 m / 1,626 ftMedium airport
On the map

Ayers Rock Connellan Airport (IATA: AYQ, ICAO: YAYE) is a medium airport in Yulara, Northern Territory, Australia. It opened in 1959. It has one runway, 2,599 m (8,527 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 208 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1959–1959
1959
OpenedAyers Rock Connellan Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Ayers Rock Airport
13/31130° / 310° · LIT
LENGTH2,599 m8,527 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
298K
286K
233K
275K
317K
359K
366K
416K
490K
92K
70K
208K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsVirgin Australia 2Jetstar Airways 2QantasLink 1Qantas Airways 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AYQ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Ayers Rock Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers208K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,522of 3,974 · #56 Oceania · #30 AULongest runway2,599 m8,527 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,132of 29,823 · #42 Oceania · #22 AUElevation496 m1,626 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=11,069of 43,341 · #372 Oceania · #112 AUAgeOpened 19592026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,466of 15,079 · =94 Oceania · =44 AURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =468 AU
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
ATISATIS126.550
CTAFCTAF126.900
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR121.850