LDH

Lord Howe Island Airport

ICAO YLHI31.5382°S 159.0755°E2 m / 5 ftSmall airport
On the map
Lord Howe ISS006-E-5731
Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. · Public domain · Commons

Lord Howe Island Airport (IATA: LDH, ICAO: YLHI) is a small airport in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia. It opened in 1974. It has one runway, 886 m (2,906 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 31 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1974–1974
1974
OpenedLord Howe Island Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Lord Howe Island Airport
10/28
LENGTH886 m2,906 ftWIDTH—SURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
31K
32K
34K
33K
33K
35K
35K
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33K
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31K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsEastern Air Services 3SmartLynx Australia 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LDH. From the Wikipedia article “Lord Howe Island Airport” (revision of 9 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers31K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,274of 3,974 · #114 Oceania · #69 AULongest runway886 m2,906 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=17,308of 29,823 · #1,555 Oceania · #1,298 AUElevation2 m5 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,995of 43,341 · =2,249 Oceania · =1,256 AUAgeOpened 19742026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,986of 15,079 · #124 Oceania · #52 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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
MISCMISC121.600