THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: New Zealand

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation from its OAG Schedules iNET network analysis tool.

NEW ZEALAND DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Auckland International (AKL)

937

76,725

30.7 %

(-0.1) %

2

Wellington International (WLG)

700

55,702

22.3 %

(-4.2) %

3

Christchurch International (CHC)

541

48,253

19.3 %

(-9.8) %

4

Queenstown (ZQN)

99

12,651

5.1 %

16.1 %

5

Dunedin International (DUD)

108

9,827

3.9 %

(-3.2) %

6

Nelson (NSN)

155

7,719

3.1 %

(-9.4) %

7

Palmerston North (PMR)

114

5,812

2.3 %

(-1.2) %

8

Napier Hawke's Bay (NPE)

106

5,390

2.2 %

(-11.5) %

9

New Plymouth (NPL)

82

4,100

1.6 %

(-3.5) %

10

Hamilton (HLZ)

86

4,031

1.6 %

(-7.7) %

(Others)

675

19,460

7.8 %

(-2.3) %

TOTAL

3,603

249,670

-

(-3.4) %

HOME AIRPORT: NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Auckland International (AKL)

405

94,001

74.9 %

(-3.0) %

2

Christchurch International (CHC)

76

15,419

12.3 %

(-15.1) %

3

Wellington International (WLG)

56

9,625

7.7 %

0.8 %

4

Queenstown (ZQN)

27

4,678

3.7 %

1.3 %

5

Dunedin International (DUD)

6

1,056

0.8 %

23.9 %

6

Hamilton (HLZ)

3

528

0.4 %

(-22.4) %

7

Rotorua (ROT)

1

171

0.1 %

(-50.0) %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

574

125,478

-

(-4.3) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD)

161

32,915

26.2 %

(-6.9) %

2

Brisbane International (BNE)

96

19,538

15.6 %

(-4.8) %

3

Melbourne Tullamarine (MEL)

93

18,395

14.7 %

1.6 %

4

Singapore Changi (SIN)

22

6,731

5.4 %

0.3 %

5

Nadi International (NAN)

24

5,133

4.1 %

10.1 %

6

Los Angeles International (LAX)

14

4,620

3.7 %

(-24.5) %

7

Hong Kong International (HKG)

14

4,109

3.3 %

(-17.1) %

8

Gold Coast (OOL)

23

4,086

3.3 %

(-5.7) %

9

Rarotonga (RAR)

14

3,077

2.5 %

4.2 %

10

Apia Faleolo (APW)

12

2,208

1.8 %

(-3.1) %

(Others)

101

24,666

19.7 %

(-1.9) %

TOTAL

574

125,478

-

(-4.3) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…