The Wellington International Airport is, after Auckland and Christchurch, the third busiest airport in New Zealand with well over 5 million passengers a year. Wellington Airport is sometimes still called Rongotai Airport, its former name.
The airport is a hub for Air New Zealand thereby linking many national destinations as well as providing international flights to destinations in Australia and the Pacific. The airport has limited room to expand as it is surrounded by residential properties and a golf course. But a new terminal was finally finished in 1999 after several decades of making plans.
Wellington International Airport is not a large airport so there are not many flights departing here. There are only a few destinations that you can reach from Wellington International Airport, most of these are operated by . Many people take a flight to Auckland and transfer to another flight there.