EMD

Emerald Airport

ICAO YEML23.5675°S 148.1790°E190 m / 624 ftMedium airport
On the map

Emerald Airport (IATA: EMD, ICAO: YEML) is a medium airport in Emerald, Queensland, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,900 m (6,234 ft). In 2022 it handled 169 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Emerald Airport
06/24071° / 251° · LIT
LENGTH1,900 m6,234 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
15/33152° / 332° · LIT
LENGTH926 m3,038 ftWIDTH18 m59 ftSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2011–2022
193K
280K
283K
249K
212K
199K
198K
195K
202K
99K
145K
169K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAlliance Airlines 2QantasLink 1Virgin Australia 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers169K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,612of 3,974 · #60 Oceania · #34 AULongest runway1,900 m6,234 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,282of 29,823 · =152 Oceania · =97 AUElevation190 m624 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,880of 43,341 · #817 Oceania · #479 AURunways21 · 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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSBRISBANE CNTR122.300