With over four million passengers Cairns Airport is the seventh busiest airport in Australia and it has connections to all major cities in Australia as well as to 20 international destinations, mostly in the Pacific region but to China and Japan as well.
Cairns Airport has two terminals 200 meters apart. Terminal 1 is the international terminal while Terminal 2 is for domestic flights only.
Cairns 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 Cairns Airport, most of these are operated by JetStar Airways. Many people take a flight to Perth and transfer to another flight there.