About Hamilton Airport

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Hamilton Airport (IATA: HLZ, ICAO: NZHN) is an airport located 14 kilometres south of the city of Hamilton in the Waikato region, in New Zealand. It is sited at Rukuhia, which was the name of the Royal New Zealand Air Force base on that site during World War II. In the year to 30 June 2011 the airport had 316,000 domestic and 46,000 international passengers.

Hamilton is the tenth-busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic. The airport has a single terminal building and 6 tarmac gates. The airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

In August 2011, approval was received by Hamilton International Airport to extend its runway up to 3,000 metres - the same size as secondary airports in other parts of the world, such as the Gold Coast. It will finish before 15 years' approval ends.

The airport resides at an elevation of 15 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has a runway designated 14R/32L with Asphalt surface measuring 4,298 feet (1,310 m) in length. There are another 3 grass surface runways exist in this airport mainly for emergency and training purposes.

The airport currently accommodates many different types of aircraft, from piston-engined light aircraft to commercial turboprop aircraft such as the ATR 72. The airport can handle all light business jets as well as 40-to-80-seat regional jets such as the Embraer E195 and Bombardier CRJ200. Several airliners can operate from the airport including the 100-200 seat Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A320. The largest aircraft authorised to land at Hamilton is the 150-to-250-seat Boeing 767. Plans to increase runway length from 2,195m to 3,000m to attract larger aircraft and start Asian regional flights, have been considered.

Hamilton Airport is home to the New Zealand Training Centre of CTC Aviation. CTC is a British flight training organisation that provides freshly trained airline pilots to numerous airlines throughout the world, mainly within the United Kingdom, most notably EasyJet, and also including British Airways, Qatar, Flybe, Thomson, Thomas Cook and Monarch Airlines amongst others.

Most of the non-passenger traffic at this airport is generated by CTC training flights, in single-engined Diamond DA20 and Cessna 172, and twin-engined Diamond DA42 Twin Star aircraft.

Air New Zealand and Sunair operate scheduled flights to and from Hamilton Airport.

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