- IATA
- CHC
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- NZCH
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1940
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 3.7M
- in 2021
History & name
Christchurch International Airport opened in 1940 and takes its name from Christchurch, the city it serves from about 10 km away. It handled 3.7 million passengers in 2021 and has 3 runways, the longest 3,288 m, at an elevation of 123 feet.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Christchurch International Airport
- Serves
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- City centre
- 10 km from Christchurch
- Opened
- 1940
- Passengers
- 3.7 million in 2021
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,288 m
- Elevation
- 123 ft (37 m)
- Website
- christchurchairport.co.nz ↗
Where it sits
43.5°S, 172.5°E puts CHC in the southern hemisphere, 4,836 km from the equator and 5,172 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 656th most northerly, which makes it the 6th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 43.5°N, 7.5°W — 268 km from Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO) in Portugal, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Nelson (NSN), 250 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from CHC
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 2,126 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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