Lord Howe Island Airport

ICAO YLHI31.5382°S 159.0755°E2 m / 5 ftSmall airport

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

10/28

LENGTH886 m2,906 ftWIDTH—SURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

31K

32K

34K

33K

35K

33K

18K

25K

31K

111213141516171819202122

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

PQQPort Macquarie AirportAustralia · Eastern Air Services589 km366 mi OOLGold Coast AirportAustralia · Eastern Air Services655 km407 mi NTLNewcastle AirportAustralia · Eastern Air Services696 km432 mi SYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · SmartLynx Australia785 km488 mi

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.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from LDH

Passenger2

—Eastern Air Services3 Q6SmartLynx Australia1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LDH. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers31K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,274of 3,974 · #114 Oceania · #69 AU Longest runway886 m2,906 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=17,316of 29,858 · #1,555 Oceania · #1,298 AU Elevation2 m5 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=43,055of 43,403 · =2,265 Oceania · =1,256 AU AgeOpened 19742026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,983of 15,079 · #124 Oceania · #52 AU Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =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