Alice Springs Airport

ICAO YBAS23.8066°S 133.9034°E545 m / 1,789 ftMedium airport

Alice Springs Airport (IATA: ASP, ICAO: YBAS) is a medium airport in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. It opened in 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,438 m (7,999 ft). In 2022 it handled 344 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1940–1977

1940

OpenedAlice Springs Airport opens.

05 JAN 1977

DisasterConnellan air disaster.5 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30120° / 300° · LIT

LENGTH2,438 m7,999 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

17/35178° / 358° · LIT

LENGTH1,133 m3,717 ftWIDTH18 m60 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

599K

580K

655K

621K

594K

612K

618K

621K

555K

209K

260K

344K

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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Year-round6

TCATennant Creek AirportAustralia · Airnorth465 km289 mi DRWDarwin International Airport / RAAF DarwinAustralia · QantasLink, Airnorth1,306 km812 mi ADLAdelaide International AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways, Virgin Australia1,317 km818 mi CNSCairns International AirportAustralia · Airnorth1,454 km903 mi MELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways1,859 km1,155 mi PERPerth International AirportAustralia · Airnorth1,978 km1,229 mi

Most destinationsAirnorth 4Qantas Airways 2QantasLink 1Virgin Australia 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ASP. From the Wikipedia article “Alice Springs Airport” (revision of 21 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers344K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,275of 3,974 · #40 Oceania · #23 AU Longest runway2,438 m7,999 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,780of 29,823 · =57 Oceania · =33 AU Elevation545 m1,789 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=9,995of 43,341 · #338 Oceania · #86 AU AgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =38 Oceania · =27 AU Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · =33 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

4 channels

ATISATIS115.900

CTAFCTAF118.300

FSSMELBOURNE CNTR119.800

TWRTWR118.300