Adelaide International Airport

ICAO YPAD34.9475°S 138.5334°E6 m / 20 ftLarge airport

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Adelaide International Airport (IATA: ADL, ICAO: YPAD) is a large airport in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It opened in 1955. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,100 m (10,171 ft). In 2024 it handled 8.4 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1955–1955

1955

OpenedAdelaide International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23050° / 230° · LIT

LENGTH3,100 m10,171 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

12/30123° / 303° · LIT

LENGTH1,652 m5,420 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2013–2024

7.4M

7.7M

7.9M

8.1M

8.3M

8.5M

2.6M

3.1M

6.4M

8.0M

8.4M

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Routes

39 destinations · 11 countries

Year-round29

Seasonal7

LSTLaunceston AirportAustralia · Virgin Australia1,054 km655 mi PPPProserpine Whitsunday Coast AirportAustralia · Jetstar Airways1,883 km1,170 mi CHCChristchurch International AirportNew Zealand · Air New Zealand3,055 km1,898 mi AKLAuckland International AirportNew Zealand · Qantas Airways3,251 km2,020 mi HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific6,877 km4,273 mi PVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines7,554 km4,694 mi SFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · United Airlines12,997 km8,076 mi

Charter4

OLPOlympic Dam AirportAustralia · Virgin Australia520 km323 mi Jacinth Ambrosia AirportAustralia · Pel-Air744 km462 mi MOOMoomba AirportAustralia · Alliance Airlines778 km483 mi BBLBallera AirportAustralia · Alliance Airlines894 km556 mi

Cargo5

MELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Toll Group, Qantas Freight641 km398 mi CBRCanberra AirportAustralia · Toll Group970 km603 mi WSIWestern Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) AirportAustralia · Qantas Freight1,123 km698 mi SYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · Toll Group, Qantas Freight1,164 km723 mi PERPerth International AirportAustralia · Toll Group, Qantas Freight2,116 km1,315 mi

Most destinationsJetstar Airways 12Virgin Australia 10QantasLink 9Rex Airlines 5Qantas Airways 4Toll Group 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ADL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Adelaide Airport” (revision of 21 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers8.4M (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#249of 3,974 · #7 Oceania · #5 AU Longest runway3,100 m10,171 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=930of 29,823 · #20 Oceania · #10 AU Elevation6 m20 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,220of 43,341 · =1,999 Oceania · =1,182 AU AgeOpened 19552026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,103of 15,079 · #90 Oceania · #41 AU Runways21 · 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

7 channels

APP/DEPApproach (East)118.200

ATISATIS116.400

CLDCLNC DEL126.100

GNDGND121.700

TWRTWR120.500

APP/DEPApproach (West)124.200

ATIS134.500