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Auckland Airport is New Zealand's largest and busiest airport, with more than 21 million passengers transported in the year ending March 2019. The airport is located near Mangere, a residential suburb, and Oaks Airport, a suburban service center 21 kilometers (13 miles) south of downtown Auckland. It is both the domestic and international hub of Air New Zealand, as well as the New Zealand hub of Jetstar Airways.
The airport is one of New Zealand's most important infrastructure facilities, providing thousands of jobs for the region. In 2000, it handled 71 percent of New Zealand's incoming and departing international air passengers. It is one of two commercial airports in New Zealand (the other is Christchurch) capable of handling Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 aircraft.
It has a capacity of about 45 flights per hour, using a single runway that fully complies with the Cat IIIb standard (at reduced speed). In November 2007, work began on the construction of a new northern runway, which will be built in several stages and will be used mainly by small aircraft, which will free up the capacity of the main runway. However, in October 2009 the project was suspended for at least 12 months, and in August 2010 it was postponed for several more years after consultations with airlines and consideration of capacity management options. The timing of the resumption of the construction of the second runway will be determined by the demand for the capacity of the existing runway. The expected completion date of the second runway is currently 2025.
