Sunshine Coast Airport

ICAO YBSU26.5933°S 153.0832°E5 m / 15 ftLarge airport

Sunshine Coast Airport (IATA: MCY, ICAO: YBSU) is a large airport in Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. It opened in 1959. It has one runway, 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 1.5 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1959–1959

1959

OpenedSunshine Coast Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

13/31142° / 322° · LIT

LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

857K

795K

867K

872K

902K

1.0M

1.1M

1.2M

1.3M

327K

577K

1.5M

111213141516171819202122

Routes

8 destinations · 4 countries

Year-round7

SYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways838 km521 mi CNSCairns International AirportAustralia · Jetstar Airways1,319 km820 mi MELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways1,455 km904 mi ADLAdelaide International AirportAustralia · Jetstar Airways1,669 km1,037 mi AKLAuckland International AirportNew Zealand · Jetstar Airways2,347 km1,458 mi DPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Jetstar Airways4,455 km2,768 mi SINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Jetstar Airways6,106 km3,794 mi

Charter1

EMDEmerald AirportAustralia · Alliance Airlines598 km372 mi

Most destinationsJetstar Airways 7Qantas Airways 2Virgin Australia 2Alliance Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MCY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Sunshine Coast Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.5M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#684of 3,974 · #20 Oceania · #12 AU Longest runway2,800 m9,186 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,614of 29,823 · #32 Oceania · #18 AU Elevation5 m15 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,827of 43,341 · =2,061 Oceania · =1,203 AU AgeOpened 19592026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,466of 15,079 · =94 Oceania · =44 AU Runways11 · 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

5 channels

ATISATIS114.200

CTAFCTAF124.400

FSSBRISBANE CNTR129.000

GNDGND121.100

TWRTWR124.400