Longreach Airport

ICAO YLRE23.4320°S 144.2775°E191 m / 627 ftMedium airport

Longreach Airport (IATA: LRE, ICAO: YLRE) is a medium airport in Longreach, Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,936 m (6,352 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Shire of Longreach. In 2022 it handled 39 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

04/22047° / 227° · LIT

LENGTH1,936 m6,352 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

35K

30K

31K

32K

34K

22K

33K

39K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

WINWinton AirportAustralia · Rex Airlines170 km106 mi TSVTownsville Airport / RAAF Base TownsvilleAustralia · Rex Airlines531 km330 mi BNEBrisbane International AirportAustralia · QantasLink990 km615 mi

Most destinationsRex Airlines 2QantasLink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LRE. From the Wikipedia article “Longreach Airport” (revision of 31 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers39K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,192of 3,974 · #109 Oceania · #66 AU Longest runway1,936 m6,352 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,213of 29,823 · =146 Oceania · #93 AU Elevation191 m627 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,821of 43,341 · =814 Oceania · =476 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

2 channels

CTAFCTAF126.700

FSSBRISBANE CNTR122.100