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Auckland International Airport is one of the largest not only in New Zealand (in the country it has the status of the main international air hub), but also in the world. The number of passengers served here amounts to tens of millions. Passenger flows of international and domestic flights are distributed almost equally.

The density of flights here is so high that planes take off and land literally one by one. Of course, such functional richness requires a clear and well-coordinated work of many services. And indeed, Auckland provides jobs for thousands of people.

The history of this largest airport today began in 1928 with a small flying club. In 1960, planned work began on arranging the country's main air hub here. In 1977, the airport was replenished with a new building of the international terminal. By 2010, a specialized modernization of the structure was carried out.

Auckland Airport lives a full, eventful, and well-organized life. And only once you are here, you can appreciate the full scale of this thoughtful and coordinated work.

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Auckland Airportformerly known as, (IATA: AKL, ICAO: NZAA) - the largest commercial airport in New Zealand, serving annually more than 13 million passengers (according to statistics, 7 million people per year are international and 6 million are domestic flights). Auckland Airport  ranks third in the ranking of all airports in the world in the service category from 5 to 15 million passengers per year. The expected volume of passenger traffic by 2025 should double and reach about 26-27 million people a year. The airport is located in the Mangere district of the western suburbs of Manukau, 20 kilometers south of the central area of \u200b\u200bAuckland. The port is the main transit hub (hub) of the flagship airline of New Zealand Air New Zealand.

Auckland Airport It is one of the most important objects of the country's economic infrastructure, providing jobs for several thousand people and being the second largest cost expression of a cargo transshipment base - annually more than 14 billion US dollars of cargo passes through the port. The airport's share of the New Zealand international airline market is more than 70%, which suggests its status as the country's main international air hub.

Average on Auckland Airport  45 take-offs and landings of aircraft take place every hour. The airport's main runway is fully IIIb certified. A parallel taxiway can be used as a runway and replaces it during maintenance and repair of the main runway. The operation of two strips at the same time is currently impossible, since the distance between the taxiway and the main strip does not allow you to handle takeoffs and landings of aircraft simultaneously on both surfaces. In November 2007, construction work began on the construction of a new runway in the northern part of the airport complex. The construction is supposed to be carried out in several stages, and after the runway is commissioned, it will be used to process small aircraft in order to unload traffic on the main runway of the airport.

History

Location Auckland Airport  in the Auckland metropolitan area

Auckland Airport, view from above

Auckland Airport2008 year

General information

The history of the airport began in 1928 with the creation of a local flying club and leasing of a small territory of the former farming site. At that time, the club had three small de Havilland DH.60 Moth aircraft. Opening the runway of the flying club, his president noted that “this territory has many advantages compared to other sections and can develop further into an airfield and even a military training ground. The plot of land is well-drained, does not contain nearby power lines and buildings, and is not prone to fog. ”

In 1960, the city's municipality began work on transforming the airport into the main airport of Auckland, expanding its territory to the north-west due to the lands of the Venuapai region, while a significant part of the constructed runway was built on the bulk sites in Manukau Harbor. The airport took its first commercial flight in November 1965 when an Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8 aircraft from Sydney landed in Auckland's port. The official opening of the airport took place at the beginning of next year, on this occasion, during the weekend from January 29 to January 31, mass festivities and thematic exhibitions were held in the airport area.

In 1977, a new building was built for the international passenger terminal, which received its name in honor of the famous New Zealand pilot Jean Batten. After that, the terminal underwent structural restructuring only in 2005, when after that there was an unconditional need to separate the flows of arriving and departing passengers, since otherwise, for example, there was the possibility of transferring an explosive device by a person who arrived from an airport with an insufficient level of security control to a passenger USA .

Further development

Currently Auckland Airport  conducts construction of a second runway north of the main runway of the airport. The second strip will be intended for servicing takeoffs and landings of small regional, private liners and general aviation aircraft. The initial project for the construction of the second runway involved the construction of a strip of 1200 meters long for receiving small aircraft and had a budget of 32 million New Zealand dollars. Then appropriate changes were made to the project, and the completion date was reduced by several months - the airport management set a goal to put the second lane into operation by the beginning of the 2011 World Rugby Championship. After the second runway is put into operation, small and medium-sized aircraft will be transferred from the main runway, since at present, aircraft of these classes have to wait a fairly long amount of time after take-offs of jet liners due to the strong turbulence generated by the latter.

The implementation of the master plan for the reconstruction and development of the airport began in November 2007, the completion of the first phase is planned for 2011 with the commissioning of the second runway with a length of 1650 meters to receive small and regional aviation. The third and final stage of the master plan includes work on lengthening the second lane to 2150 meters, which will allow the transfer to this lane and international medium-haul flights to Australia and Oceania. Also, the list of works of the third phase of the general plan includes the construction of a modern building for the passenger terminal of domestic airlines, which is planned to be built north of the current common terminal zone. The cost of the entire project is 120 million New Zealand dollars, the project itself does not contain anything extraordinary - only plans to expand and modernize the existing structure of the airport complex.

The modernization of the existing building of the international terminal was completed in 2009, after which the airport was certified to serve the Airbus A380 airliners. Emirates Airline, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, in May 2009 opened a regular flight on the A380 from Dubai International Airport to Auckland with an intermediate landing at Sydney Airport and plans to open another flight on the same route with a landing in Melbourne.

Terminals

International terminal

The check-in area for international passengers is located on the ground floor in the east wing of the terminal.

Gates with numbers 1-10 are equipped with one telescope each. Gates 15 and 16 have two telescopic traps and serve wide-body airliners, including two-story A380s.

The gates 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 5A do not have telescopic gangways and are gateway exits for boarding passengers.

In November 2007 Auckland Airport He began the implementation of the master plan for the reconstruction and modernization of the airport complex, within the framework of which by 2011 the territory of the international terminal should be expanded and a new passenger arrival hall opened. The arrivals hall will be connected to the car park through a system of escalators, walkways and elevators. Currently, the question remains open of how the ticket registration area, the arrival and departure halls, the baggage claim area and the immigration and customs inspection area will be located on one floor of the international terminal. The management of the national airline Air New Zealand sharply criticized the airport’s master plan as “unnecessary and untimely,” as well as pointing out possible abuse of monopolism in the ground-based aviation market.

Separation of zones

Until 2006, passengers arriving and departing for Auckland Airport  were in one sterile zone of the airport. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it became necessary to separate the passenger flows of departing and arriving passengers into two unrelated areas. New Zealand Civil Aviation Ministry issued Auckland Airport  temporary permission to serve passengers in one sterile zone, the validity of this permission was established until 2006. At the same time, flight service to the United States, as well as all flights of Qantas and Cathay Pacific airlines, were moved to a separate gate equipped with an additional scanner, metal detector and X-ray machine.

Guide Auckland Airport  decided not to go along the path of building an additional superstructure for the arriving passenger hall (as was done in Beijing, Vancouver and Heathrow), and developed a plan to expand the territory of the sterile area on the ground floor of the airport terminal in the direction of the existing boarding gates and their subsequent separation from the general sterile zones of glass partitions. This plan was implemented in early 2006.

Domestic terminal

The terminal building of the internal lines is actually two separate buildings that were previously used for the economic needs of the airport, which are connected with each other by a common extension with the shopping area of \u200b\u200bshops, cafes and restaurants. The main operators in the domestic terminal are Pacific Blue, Air New Zealand and Jetstar, which switched to domestic flights from Qantas and the former carrier Ansett New Zealand.

Gates with numbers 20 and 21 are assigned to Jetstar airline, Pacific Blue uses the new gate 24, Air New Zealand - gates with numbers 29-33, all of the listed gates are equipped with telescopic ramps. Regional turboprop aircraft of Air New Zealand and its partners are serviced by gates at the end of the east wing of the sterile area of \u200b\u200bthe domestic airline terminal, while passengers get to the liners from the east wing exits on foot through the platform area.

Airlines and destinations

Airport International Terminal

Registration area at the international terminal Auckland Airport

Apron in front of the international terminal

Airline Destinations Terminal
Aerolíneas Argentinas Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Sydney International
Air chathams Chatham Islands, Napier Interior
Aircalin Noumea International
Air new zealand Interior
Air new zealand Adelaide, Apia, Beijing (Metropolitan), Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Honolulu, London (Heathrow), Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nadi, Newey, Norfolk Island, Noumea, Osaka Kansai, Papete, Perth, Port Vila, Rarotonga, San Francisco, Shanghai (Pudong), Sydney, Tokyo (Narita), Tonga, Vancouver International
Air new zealand
  performed by Air Nelson
Blenheim, Gisborne, Kerikeri, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga Interior
Air new zealand
  performed by Eagle Airways
Blenheim, Gisborne, Hamilton, Kaitaia, Kerikeri, Masterton, Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wakatan, Wangarei Interior
Air new zealand
  performed by Mount Cook Airline
Napier, Palmerston North Interior
Air pacific Nadi International
Air tahiti nui Papete International
Air vanuatu Port vila International
Cathay Pacific Airways Hong Kong International
Emirates Brisbane, Dubai, Melbourne, Sydney International
Great barrier airlines Great Barrier, Matarangi, Wangarei, Waiyitanga Interior
Jetstar airways Christchurch, Queenstown, Wellington Interior
Jetstar airways Gold Coast, Sydney International
Korean air Seoul (Incheon) International
LAN Airlines Santiago, Sydney International
Malaysia airlines Kuala lumpur International
Mountain air Great Barrier, Wangarei, Tongariro Interior
Qantas airways Brisbane, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney International
Royal brunei airlines Bandar Seri Begawan International
Singapore Airlines Singapore International
Thai Airways International Bangkok (Suvannabum) International
Virgin blue
  performs Pacific Blue
Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Wellington Interior
Virgin blue
  performs Pacific Blue
Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Nukualofa, Rarotonga International
Virgin blue
  performed by Polynesian Blue
Apia International

Management Company

In 1988, the government of New Zealand established a management company Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL) (Auckland International Airport). Until that time, the port was under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Regional Council, which includes representatives from five districts of the city.

From 1988 to 1998, the stranger government was the largest shareholder of the management company, then a controlling stake was put up for exchange trading and as a result Auckland International Airport  became the fifth largest joint-stock management company in the list of airport holdings in the world. At the end of 1998, the main holdings of the holding were owned by the Auckland City Council (25.8%), Manukau City Council (9.6%) and the North Shore City Council (7.1%). The following year, the North Shore City Council completely sold its share of the shares, and in 2002, the Auckland City Council also put a portion of its airport shares for exchange trading, thereby reducing its stake to 12.8% of the shares of AIAL Management Company.

Stocks Auckland International Airport  traded in New Zealand (NZX: Aia) and Australian (ASX: Aia) stock exchanges, with about 60% of all shares at the end of 2009 owned by foreign investors and about 40% of the shares held by New Zealand organizations and private companies. According to Standard & Poor's, the AIAL long-term credit rating is estimated at A +short-term - in A-1, and the forecast for rating changes in the next two to three years according to the version of this agency is estimated as Stable .

Auckland International Airport  It has various sources of financial resources and maintains two different balances of its activities: the enterprises and branches of the holding, whose work is directly related to aviation activities, and the enterprises and branches, whose work is not related to it. Revenues from the first group include revenues from airlines for aviation, technical and after-sales services, fees for take-offs and landings of aircraft, rental of air carrier space at the airport terminals. The non-aviation group includes a significant part of the income from investments of financial resources, as well as the proceeds from car parking and retail outlets located at the airport.

Maintaining two types of activity groups according to different financial balances and in general the variety of commercial services provided by the holding allows Auckland International Airport out of general crisis situations such as the economic downturn in world aviation after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks in Bali in 2002, the outbreak of SARS, the war in Iraq and others, remaining a positive result of the holding’s overall financial activity. Auckland International Airport  relies on a stable income from activities not directly related to aviation services, which allows it to mitigate financial losses from strong fluctuations in the commercial air transportation market worldwide. It is also important that New Zealand has always maintained the image of one of the safest countries for tourist vacations.

Until July 2008 Auckland International Airport  levied a fee of $ 25 per passenger departing from New Zealand (12 years of age or older). In July 2008, this fee was reduced to 13 dollars, in 2009 - 13.5 dollars, in 2010 - 14 US dollars, and at the moment the growth of the tariff charge has been recorded without forecasts for a further increase.

Ground message

The buildings of the international passenger terminal of the airport and the terminal of internal passenger traffic are connected by sidewalks and free local bus services.

The main mode of transport with which you can reach Auckland Airportis road transport. The airport is located on two national highways: SH-20A and SH-20B, which start in the northern part of the airport complex and provide access to the central area of \u200b\u200bAuckland, and further to the rest of the city and other areas of the country. If there are no traffic jams on the motorway, the travel time between the central part of the city and the airport is 40-45 minutes.

At the forecourt of the building near both terminals, taxis and minibuses are available for passengers.

Accidents and accidents

List of aviation incidents directly related to Auckland Airport:

  • July 4, 1966. A few seconds after taking off from the runway Auckland Airport  the plane crashed Douglas DC-8 airline Air New Zealand, performing a training flight. Two out of five pilots aboard were killed.
  • February 17, 1979. When approaching at Auckland Airport  Air New Zealand's Fokker Friendship crashed into Mount Manukau. One pilot and one airline employee died.
  • July 31, 1989. Soon after taking off from the airport at night, the Convair 340/580 plane, performing a cargo flight, crashed to the ground and burned out as a result of a fire. Killed all three pilots aboard the ship.
  • March 12, 2003, flight 286 of Singapore Airlines. Due to the incorrect calculation of the take-off mass of the Boeing 747-400 during take-off during the take-off phase, the pilot lifted the plane too early from the runway. As a result, the liner hooked the tail of the runway 05L with its tail and, before the final take-off, dragged the tail along the strip to a distance of almost 500 meters.

List of accidents and disasters with a mention Auckland Airport:

Notes

References

  • Details (airport data from "aviationpage.co.nz)
  Latitude at which the airport is located: -36.848459700000, in turn, the longitude of the airport corresponds to: 174.763331500000. The geographical coordinates of latitude and longitude determine the position of the airport on the earth's surface. To fully determine the position of the airport in three-dimensional space, you also need a third coordinate - height. The height of the airport above sea level is 7 meters. The airport is located in the time zone: +13.0 GMT. In airplane tickets, the local time of departure and arrival of the airport according to time zones is always indicated.

Online arrivals and departure board airport Auckland International (AKL).

  The most up-to-date information on flight times and possible delays is usually located on the online arrivals and departure screens on the official Auckland International (AKL) airport website:. Also on the official website of the AKL airport, you can usually find information on the directions to the airport, information on parking on the territory, the scheme of the airport itself, information on services, rules and other reference information for passengers.

: NZAA

Information A type   civil The country   New Zealand Location   Auckland (New Zealand) opening date NUM height   +7 m Working hours   daylight hours Website Official site Runways Statistics Annual passenger flow   ▲ 15 734 410 people (2014)

Auckland Airport It is one of the most important objects of the country's economic infrastructure, providing jobs for several thousand people and being the second largest cost expression of a cargo transshipment base - annually more than 14 billion US dollars of cargo passes through the port. The airport's share of the New Zealand international airline market is more than 70%, which suggests its status as the country's main international air hub.

Average on Auckland Airport  45 take-offs and landings of aircraft take place every hour. The airport's main runway is fully IIIb certified. A parallel taxiway can be used as a runway and replaces it during maintenance and repair of the main runway. The operation of two strips at the same time is currently impossible, since the distance between the taxiway and the main strip does not allow you to handle takeoffs and landings of aircraft simultaneously on both surfaces. In November 2007, construction work began on the construction of a new runway in the northern part of the airport complex. The construction is supposed to be carried out in several stages, and after the runway is commissioned, it will be used to process small aircraft in order to unload traffic on the main runway of the airport.

History

General information

The history of the airport began in 1928 with the creation of a local flying club and leasing of a small territory of the former farming site. At that time, the club had three small de Havilland DH.60 Moth aircraft. Opening the runway of the flying club, his president noted that “this territory has many advantages compared to other sections and can develop further into an airfield and even a military training ground. The plot of land is well-drained, does not contain nearby power lines and buildings, and is not prone to fog. ”

In 1960, the city's municipality began work on transforming the airport into the main airport of Auckland, expanding its territory to the north-west due to the lands of the Venuapai region, while a significant part of the constructed runway was built on the bulk sites in Manukau Harbor. The airport took its first commercial flight in November 1965, when a Douglas DC-8 Airline Zealand airline from Sydney landed in Auckland's port. The official opening of the airport took place at the beginning of next year, on this occasion, during the weekend from January 29 to January 31, mass festivals and thematic exhibitions were held in the airport area.

In 1977, a new building was built for the international passenger terminal, which received its name in honor of the famous New Zealand pilot Jean Batten. After that, the terminal underwent structural restructuring only in 2005, when after that there was an unconditional need to separate the flows of arriving and departing passengers, since otherwise, for example, there was the possibility of transferring an explosive device by a person who arrived from an airport with an insufficient level of security control to a passenger USA .

Further development

Currently Auckland Airport  conducts construction of a second runway north of the main runway of the airport. The second strip will be intended for servicing takeoffs and landings of small regional, private liners and general aviation aircraft. The initial project for the construction of the second runway involved the construction of a strip of 1200 meters long for receiving small aircraft and had a budget of 32 million New Zealand dollars. Then appropriate changes were made to the project, and the completion date was reduced by several months - the airport management set a goal to put the second lane into operation by the beginning of the 2011 World Rugby Championship. After the second runway is put into operation, small and medium-sized aircraft will be transferred from the main runway, since at present, aircraft of these classes have to wait a fairly long amount of time after take-offs of jet liners due to the strong turbulence generated by the latter.

The implementation of the master plan for the reconstruction and development of the airport began in November 2007, the completion of the first phase is planned for 2011 with the commissioning of the second runway with a length of 1650 meters to receive small and regional aviation. The third and final stage of the master plan includes work on lengthening the second lane to 2150 meters, which will allow the transfer to this lane and international medium-haul flights to Australia and Oceania. Also, the list of works of the third phase of the general plan includes the construction of a modern building for the passenger terminal of domestic airlines, which is planned to be built north of the current common terminal zone. The cost of the entire project is 120 million New Zealand dollars, the project itself does not contain anything extraordinary - only plans to expand and modernize the existing structure of the airport complex.

The modernization of the existing building of the international terminal was completed in 2009, after which the airport was certified to serve the Airbus A380 airliners. Emirates Airline, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, in May 2009 opened a regular flight on the A380 from Dubai International Airport to Auckland with an intermediate landing at Sydney Airport and plans to open another flight on the same route with a landing in Melbourne.

Terminals

International terminal

The check-in area for international passengers is located on the ground floor in the east wing of the terminal.

Gates with numbers 1-10 are equipped with one telescope each. Gates 15 and 16 have two telescopic traps and serve wide-body airliners, including two-story A380s.

The gates 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 5A do not have telescopic gangways and are gateway exits for boarding passengers.

In November 2007 Auckland Airport He began the implementation of the master plan for the reconstruction and modernization of the airport complex, within the framework of which by 2011 the territory of the international terminal should be expanded and a new passenger arrival hall opened. The arrivals hall will be connected to the car park through a system of escalators, walkways and elevators. Currently, the question remains open of how the ticket registration area, the arrival and departure halls, the baggage claim area and the immigration and customs inspection area will be located on one floor of the international terminal. The management of the national airline Air New Zealand sharply criticized the airport’s master plan as “unnecessary and untimely,” as well as pointing out possible abuse of monopolism in the ground-based aviation market.

Separation of zones

Until 2006, passengers arriving and departing for Auckland Airport  were in one sterile zone of the airport. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it became necessary to separate the passenger flows of departing and arriving passengers into two unrelated areas. New Zealand Civil Aviation Ministry issued Auckland Airport  temporary permission to serve passengers in one sterile zone, the validity of this permission was established until 2006. At the same time, flight service to the United States, as well as all flights of Qantas and Cathay Pacific airlines, were moved to a separate gate equipped with an additional scanner, metal detector and X-ray machine.

Guide Auckland Airport  decided not to go along the path of building an additional superstructure for the arriving passenger hall (as was done in Beijing, Vancouver and Heathrow), and developed a plan to expand the territory of the sterile area on the ground floor of the airport terminal in the direction of the existing boarding gates and their subsequent separation from the general sterile zones of glass partitions. This plan was implemented in early 2006.

Domestic terminal

The terminal building of the internal lines is actually two separate buildings that were previously used for the economic needs of the airport, which are connected to each other by a common extension with the shopping area of \u200b\u200bshops, cafes and restaurants. The main operators in the domestic terminal are Pacific Blue, Air New Zealand and Jetstar, which switched to domestic flights from Qantas and the former carrier Ansett New Zealand.

Gates with numbers 20 and 21 are assigned to Jetstar airline, Pacific Blue uses the new gate 24, Air New Zealand - gates with numbers 29-33, all of the listed gates are equipped with telescopic ramps. Regional turboprop aircraft of Air New Zealand and its partners are serviced by gates at the end of the east wing of the sterile area of \u200b\u200bthe domestic airline terminal, while passengers get to the liners from the east wing exits on foot through the platform area.

Airlines and destinations

Airline Destinations Terminal
Aerolíneas Argentinas Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Sydney International
Air chathams Chatham Islands, Napier Interior
Aircalin Noumea International
Air new zealand Interior
Air new zealand Adelaide, Apia, Beijing (Metropolitan), Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Honolulu, London (Heathrow), Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nadi, Newey, Norfolk Island, Noumea, Osaka Kansai, Papete, Perth, Port Vila, Rarotonga, San Francisco, Shanghai (Pudong), Sydney, Tokyo (Narita), Tonga, Vancouver International
Air new zealand
performed by Air Nelson
Blenheim, Gisborne, Kerikeri, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga Interior
Air new zealand
performed by Eagle Airways
Blenheim, Gisborne, Hamilton, Kaitaia, Kerikeri, Masterton, Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wakatan, Fangarei Interior
Air new zealand
performed by Mount Cook Airline
Napier, Palmerston North Interior
Air pacific Nadi International
Air tahiti nui Papete International
Air vanuatu Port vila International
Cathay Pacific Airways Hong Kong International
Emirates Brisbane, Dubai, Melbourne, Sydney International
Great barrier airlines Great Barrier, Matarangi, Fangarei, Waiyitanga Interior
Jetstar airways Christchurch, Queenstown, Wellington Interior
Jetstar airways Gold Coast, Sydney International
Korean air Seoul (Incheon) International
LAN Airlines Santiago, Sydney International
Malaysia airlines Kuala lumpur International
Mountain air Great Barrier, Fangarei, Tongariro Interior
Qantas airways Brisbane, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney International
Royal brunei airlines Bandar Seri Begawan International
Singapore Airlines Singapore International
Thai Airways International Bangkok (Suvannabum) International
Virgin blue
performs Pacific Blue
Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Wellington Interior
Virgin blue
performs Pacific Blue
Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Nukualofa, Rarotonga International
Virgin blue
performed by Polynesian Blue
Apia International

Management Company

Auckland international airport
  (Auckland International Airport)
A type public
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Key figures   Simon Mutter (CEO)
Website aucklandairport.co.nz
  Wikimedia Commons Media Files

In 1988, the government of New Zealand established a management company Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL) (Auckland International Airport). Until that time, the port was under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Regional Council, which includes representatives from five districts of the city.

From 1988 to 1998, the government was the largest shareholder of the management company, then a controlling stake was put up for exchange trading and as a result   became the fifth largest joint-stock management company in the list of airport holdings in the world. At the end of 1998, the main holdings of the holding were owned by the Auckland City Council (25.8%), Manukau City Council (9.6%) and the North Shore City Council (7.1%). The following year, the North Shore City Council completely sold its share of the shares, and in 2002, the Auckland City Council also put a portion of its airport shares for exchange trading, thereby reducing its stake to 12.8% of the shares of AIAL Management Company.

Stocks Auckland International Airport  traded in New Zealand (NZX: Aia) and Australian (ASX: Aia) stock exchanges, with about 60% of all shares at the end of 2009 owned by foreign investors and about 40% of the shares held by New Zealand organizations and private companies. According to Standard & Poor's, the AIAL long-term credit rating is estimated at A +short-term - in A-1, and the forecast for rating changes in the next two to three years according to the version of this agency is estimated as Stable .

Auckland International Airport  It has various sources of financial resources and maintains two different balances of its activities: the enterprises and branches of the holding, whose work is directly related to aviation activities, and the enterprises and branches, whose work is not related to it. Revenues from the first group include revenues from airlines for aviation, technical and after-sales services, fees for take-offs and landings of aircraft, rental of air carrier space at the airport terminals. The non-aviation group includes a significant part of the income from investments of financial resources, as well as the proceeds from car parking and retail outlets located at the airport.

Maintaining two types of activity groups according to different financial balances and in general the variety of commercial services provided by the holding allows Auckland International Airport out of general crisis situations such as the economic downturn in world aviation after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks in Bali in 2002, the outbreak of SARS, the war in Iraq and others, remaining a positive result of the holding’s overall financial activity. Auckland International Airport  relies on a stable income from activities not directly related to aviation services, which allows it to mitigate financial losses from strong fluctuations in the commercial air transportation market worldwide. It is also important that New Zealand has always maintained the image of one of the safest countries for tourist vacations.

Until July 2008 Auckland International Airport  levied a fee of $ 25 per passenger departing from New Zealand (12 years of age or older). In July 2008, this fee was reduced to 13 dollars, in 2009 - 13.5 dollars, in 2010 - 14 US dollars, and at the moment the growth of the tariff charge has been recorded without forecasts for a further increase.

Ground message

The buildings of the international passenger terminal of the airport and the terminal of internal passenger traffic are connected by sidewalks and free local bus services.

The main mode of transport with which you can reach Auckland Airportis road transport. The airport is located on two national highways: SH-20A and SH-20B, which start in the northern part of the airport complex and provide access to the central area of \u200b\u200bAuckland, and further to the rest of the city and other areas of the country. If there are no traffic jams on the motorway, the travel time between the central part of the city and the airport is 40-45 minutes.

At the forecourt of the building near both terminals, taxis and minibuses are available for passengers.

Accidents and accidents

List of aviation incidents directly related to Auckland Airport:

  • July 4, 1966. A few seconds after taking off from the runway Auckland Airport  the plane crashed Douglas DC-8 airline Air New Zealand, performing a training flight. Two out of five pilots aboard were killed.
  • February 17, 1979. When approaching at Auckland Airport  Air New Zealand's Fokker Friendship crashed into Mount Manukau. One pilot and one airline employee died.
  • July 31, 1989. Soon after taking off from the airport at night, the Convair 340/580 plane, performing a cargo flight, crashed to the ground and burned out as a result of a fire. Killed all three pilots aboard the ship.
  • March 12, 2003, flight 286 of Singapore Airlines. Due to the incorrect calculation of the take-off mass of the Boeing 747-400 during take-off during the take-off phase, the pilot lifted the plane too early from the runway. As a result, the liner hooked the tail of the runway 05L with its tail and, before the final take-off, dragged the tail along the strip to a distance of almost 500 meters.

List of accidents and disasters with a mention Auckland Airport:

  • July 13, 1973, flight 816 Auckland - Papeete - the crew could not adjust too high a vertical speed, as a result of which the airliner fell on a forest in front of the airport runway. Almost all passengers and crew members (97 out of 101 people on board) did not die from a direct hit by an airplane against trees, but because of a fire and the general panic that followed. United Airlines San Francisco - Los Angeles - Honolulu - Auckland, Boeing B747-122 aircraft (registration number N4713U). After taking off from Honolulu International Airport in the climb phase, the liner lost the poorly closed front luggage compartment door, after which there was an explosive decompression and loss of traction of the third and fourth engines, 9 passengers were thrown out. The crew managed to land a plane at Honolulu Airport. The cause of the accident was the failure of the indicator of the closed tailgate or a breakdown in the electrical system of this indicator, which led to the installation of the door lock in the unlocked position. Killed 9 people out of 356 on board.
  • June 9, 1995, flight 703 Auckland - Palmerston North by Ansett New Zealand, aircraft de Havilland Canada Dash 8 (registration number ZK-NEY). During a visual approach at the Palmerston North International Airport, in bad weather conditions, he encountered a slope of the Tararua Range 16 kilometers east of the airport. Killed four people out of 21 on board.
  • May 3, 2005, flight 23 Auckland - Blenheim, aircraft Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III airline Airwork (registration number ZK-POA). The pilots of the liner performing the cargo flight commissioned by the state postal company New Zealand Post, during the flight with the autopilot turned off, tried to balance the fuel between the left and right fuel tanks, as a result of which the plane fell apart in the air near the city of Stratford (eng.)russian. Both pilots died.

The cost of a flight always depends on the travel time. The schedule will allow you to compare airfare to Auckland, track the dynamics of changes in their cost and find the best deal.

Statistics will help determine the season of low prices. For example, in January, prices on average reach 82 713 rubles, and in May, ticket prices drop on average to the level of 49 970 rubles. Plan your trip now!

We analyze this information and make schedules to make it easier for you to plan your trips.


What is more profitable - to buy tickets in advance, avoiding general hype, or closer to the departure date to take advantage of the "hot" offer? The schedule will help you determine the best time to purchase airline tickets.


See how the price of flights to Auckland changed depending on the time of purchase. Since the start of sales, their cost has changed on average by 50%. The minimum price for a flight to Auckland is 53 days before departure, approximately 48,708 rubles. The maximum price in the direction of Auckland is 1 day before departure, approximately 86,993 rubles. In most cases, early booking helps save money, take advantage of this!

Airfare to Auckland does not represent a fixed and fixed amount. It depends on many factors, including the day of departure. Dynamics of changes is visible on the chart.


According to statistics, the most affordable option for flights to Auckland is on Sundays, their average cost is 59,052 rubles. The most expensive flights are on Saturdays; their average cost is 71,157 rubles. It is worth considering that departures on pre-holiday days are usually more expensive. We hope that this data will help you plan your trips most efficiently.

Airfare depends not only on the date, but also on the time of departure. In one day, the airline can make several flights, and they will differ in the price category.


The graph shows the cost of departure depending on the time of day. For example, the average ticket price to Auckland in the morning is 64,328 rubles, and in the evening 64,542 rubles. Evaluate all conditions and choose the best offer.

The graph shows the comparative prices for flights to Auckland of the most popular airlines. Based on this information, you can plan your trip and buy tickets to Auckland from a carrier that suits you.


Statistics will help you choose a flight, focusing on your financial capabilities, as well as wishes in terms of comfort and flight conditions. Virgin Australia has the lowest airfare for flights to Auckland; LAN Airlines has the lowest prices.