Launceston Airport guide

Launceston Airport is a regional airport at Western Junction, an industrial area about 15 km from Launceston city centre in northern Tasmania. The ICAO code is YMLT. It is the state's second busiest airport after Hobart, and it carried about 1.4 million passengers in the 2024-25 financial year.

The Tasmanian Aero Club formed in 1927 and built the first air travel facility in Tasmania on this site. The Western Junction Aerodrome opened officially in 1929 and began operating in 1930. The Royal Australian Air Force used it for flight training from 1940 to 1944. A redevelopment reopened it as Launceston Airport in 1962. The airport was privatised in 1998 and is jointly owned by Launceston City Council and Australia Pacific Airports Corporation, which operates it.

The airport has three runways. Runway 14R/32L is 1,981 m of asphalt. Runways 14L/32R and 18/36 are grass strips of 700 m and 690 m. Jetstar, QantasLink and Virgin Australia fly to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Link Airways serves Canberra, and Virgin Australia adds Adelaide on selected days. Sharp Airlines and Par Avion link the airport with the Bass Strait islands. The terminal reopened after redevelopment on 12 March 2010, and a check-in hall expansion opened in 2023.