Cairns Airport Information

Cairns Airport is one of Australia’s leading regional airports, providing air links to a range of domestic and international locations. Cairns Airport is the gateway to Tropical North Queensland - home of two World Heritage sites, the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest. Cairns Airport is just 7 kilometres from the Cairns CBD. Over 5 million passengers pass through Cairns Airport each year. There are direct domestic flights to Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Toowoomba, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin as well as to various regional centres across North Queensland. Pre-COVID Cairns Airport was Australia’s seventh busiest for international passengers with direct flights from Tokyo, Osaka, Shenzhen, Bali, Singapore and Port Moresby. There were also seasonal flights from Auckland. Cairns Airport is part of the North Queensland Airport (NQA) Group.