Hawke's Bay Airport

Hawke's Bay Airport
Air Nelson Bombardier Q300 on the tarmac at Napier Airport, November 2005
IATA: NPE – ICAO: NZNR NPE Location of airport in North Island
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Crown (50%) Napier City (26%) Hastings District (24%)
Operator		Hawke's Bay Airport Ltd
Serves		Hastings, New Zealand and Napier, New Zealand
Location		State Highway 2, Westshore, Napier, New Zealand
Elevation AMSL		2 m / 7 ft
Coordinates		39°28′06″S 176°52′18″E / 39.46833°S 176.87167°E / -39.46833; 176.87167
Website		www.hawkesbay-airport.co.nz
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
16/34	1,750	5,742	Asphalt
07/25	1,199	3,934	Asphalt/Grass
10/28	560	1,837	Grass
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			430,000
Source: [1]

Hawke's Bay Airport (owned and operated by Hawke's Bay Airport Ltd) is Hawke's Bay's main commercial airport serving domestic flights to the main centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as well as smaller centres such as Gisborne, Tauranga, Hamilton and Palmerston North . The airport is permitted to allow limited international flights for aircraft with up to fourteen people on board by prior arrangement with Air Napier or Skyline Aviation.^{[citation needed]}

The Airport itself is located nearest to the urban centre of Napier, and is sometimes referred to as Napier Airport.

Hawke's Bay Airport Terminal is a modern well-equipped building, featuring three check-in counters for Air New Zealand and a check-in counter for Sun Air, together with a cafe, seating area and rental car counters. Both long-term and secured car parking is provided close to the terminal. There is a Koru lounge for Air New Zealand Koru club members and meeting rooms available for hire. There is an internal baggage reclaim area where passengers' luggage is brought directly from the plane within minutes of disembarking.^{[citation needed]}

The second floor has a small glass-fenced open air deck, where arriving and departing aircraft can be viewed.^{[citation needed]}

Hawke's Bay Airport is a busy regional airport with frequent flights to and from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on Air New Zealand Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 & ATR 72-500 turbo prop aircraft. 432,000 travellers passed through the terminal in the 12 months to June 2011.^[2]

Due to booming tourism and commerce in Napier and Hastings extensions to the northern and southern ends of the main runway at Hawkes Bay Airport have just been completed, which provides a total of 1750 metres ( sufficient to accommodate 737-300, B737-800 and A320 aircraft operated by Air New Zealand & Jetstar on domestic operations. A terminal reconfiguration, along with a full-scale security fence, would be required before domestic scheduled services could commence. At this stage further development to enable trans-Tasman services is not planned. Hawke's Bay Airport has received resource consent from the Napier City Council to begin Stage 1 of a significant multi million dollar business park development.

A smaller airport is located near Hastings called Hastings Aerodrome, which is primarily used for flight training and recreational aviation.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Chathams	Chatham Islands
Air Napier	Gisborne, Palmerston North
Air New Zealand operated by Air Nelson	Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington
Air New Zealand operated by Mount Cook Airline	Auckland
Sunair	Gisborne, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Tauranga

Future Destinations : Dunedin & Paraparaumu are being examined by Air New Zealand group subsidiaries

Incidents

18 May 2010 a Piper Aztec aircraft made a crash landing at Hawke's Bay Airport during a night flight. Around 9.05pm a Sunair four-seater Piper Aztec experienced difficulties whilst landing, when the nose-wheel failed to deploy. Napier police say it appeared the front landing gear did not function as it should. The aircraft came to rest on the runway. Witnesses said it appeared the nose wheel would not come down. There were three people on board - two staff members from the airline and one member of the public. All escaped without injury. Police, fire, ambulance and airport fire/rescue responded to the incident and the runway in question was closed. It was expected the runway would re-open the following morning for Air New Zealand Link flights to continue as scheduled.^[3]

References

1. ^ Passenger Traffic 2010
2. ^ Newsroom - Hawke's Bay Airport
3. ^ Sharpe, Marty (18 May 2010). "'Frightening' emergency landing at Hawke's Bay Airport". The Dominion Post. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3708543/Undercarriage-fault-causes-emergency-landing. Retrieved 2 October 2011. 

External links

• Hawke's Bay airport website