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Cairns International Airport (CNS)

Cairns, Australia · ICAO YBCS · IATA CNS

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Cairns International Airport (YBCS)1533
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Cairns, Australia
ICAO code
YBCS
IATA code
CNS
Elevation
10 ft
Longest runway
10,489 ft (15/33)
Runways
1
Size class
Large
Position
-16.8789, 145.7495

About YBCS

Cairns International Airport (CNS) is a large airport in Cairns, Australia, with the ICAO code YBCS. It has one runway, 15/33, 10,489 ft long and 148 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 156 taxiway segments, 6 aprons and 4 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 30 airlines have 447 routes through YBCS. Its most frequent links are Brisbane (BNE), Sydney (SYD) and Townsville (TSV).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
15 / 3310,489 ft148 ftHardLit

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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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

  • Qantas QFA105 routes
  • Jetstar JST72 routes
  • QantasLink QLK70 routes
  • Virgin Australia VOZ66 routes
  • Air New Zealand ANZ9 routes
  • Rex RXA8 routes
  • Cathay CPA5 routes
  • Fiji FJI3 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: TGG, UTY, BNZ, QJE, SKP, ANO, JTE.

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.