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Christchurch International Airport (CHC)

Christchurch, New Zealand · ICAO NZCH · IATA CHC

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Christchurch International Airport (NZCH)022011290119
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Christchurch, New Zealand
ICAO code
NZCH
IATA code
CHC
Elevation
123 ft
Longest runway
10,787 ft (02/20)
Runways
3
Size class
Large
Position
-43.4890, 172.5321

About NZCH

Christchurch International Airport (CHC) is a large airport in Christchurch, New Zealand, with the ICAO code NZCH. Its 3 runways are 02/20, 11/29 and 01/19. The longest, 02/20, is 10,787 ft. Of these, 2 hard and 1 soft. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 39 gates, 57 taxiway segments, 8 aprons and 2 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 33 airlines have 1,488 routes through NZCH. Its most frequent links are Wellington (WLG), Auckland (AKL) and Dunedin (DUD).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
02 / 2010,787 ft148 ftHardLit
11 / 295,587 ft148 ftHardLit
01 / 191,690 ft229 ftSoftNot lit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Air New Zealand ANZ952 routes
  • Jetstar JST59 routes
  • Virgin Australia VOZ27 routes
  • Qantas QFA18 routes
  • Cathay CPA6 routes
  • Singapore SIA5 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: NZM, RLK, SDA, AWK, APO, TNZ, OGN, XAX and 1 more.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.