Christchurch International Airport | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_International_Airport


00:01:33 1 History
00:07:56 1.1 Airport redevelopment
00:10:57 2 Runways
00:12:53 3 Terminal and gates
00:14:44 4 Airlines and destinations
00:15:14 4.1 Passenger
00:15:35 4.2 Cargo
00:15:44 5 Statistics
00:16:28 5.1 Traffic
00:16:36 6 Operations
00:16:45 6.1 Military
00:17:28 6.2 SOFIA
00:18:05 6.3 General aviation
00:18:58 6.4 Aviation services
00:19:35 7 Access, ground transport, and parking
00:20:32 8 Accidents and incidents
00:22:04 9 See also



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Christchurch International Airport (IATA: CHC, ICAO: NZCH) is the main airport that serves Christchurch, New Zealand. It is located 12 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, in the suburb of Harewood. Christchurch (Harewood) Airport officially opened on 18 May 1940 and became New Zealand's first international airport on 16 December 1950. It is the second busiest airport in New Zealand after Auckland by both annual passengers and aircraft movements. Christchurch along with Auckland are the only two airports in New Zealand to regularly handle Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 aircraft. The airport is curfew free operating 24 hours a day.
The prevailing wind in Christchurch is from the north-east and to a lesser extent from the south-west, but the city is also affected by Canterbury's nor'wester foehn wind. As a result, the airport has two perpendicular runways: a 3288 m primary runway (02/20) oriented with the north-easterly and south-westerly prevailing winds, and a 1741 m secondary runway (11/29) oriented for use during nor'westers. The airport also has a third grass runway, parallel to the primary runway, for use by general aviation.Due to increasing passenger numbers, the airport has completed construction of a major terminal upgrade. The new construction's primary wing opened in 2011 and the upgrade was completed in 2013.