About The Airport

Located on the east coast of Australia, 2.5hrs drive north of Sydney, NTL is the closest international airport to key population and business centres in Port Stephens, the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, the Central Coast, the mid North Coast and northern Sydney. The Hunter population of 1.3m people is the 6th largest in Australia. The catchment is forecast to grow to Australia’s 5th largest population of 1.5m by 2030.

Newcastle Airport (NTL) is the gateway to Australia’s largest regional economy, the Hunter Region in New South Wales with a Gross Regional Product (GRP) of AUD $63 billion. This is significantly larger than most cities in Australia and is just short of the GRP of Melbourne. The Defence industry based around RAAF Williamtown/Newcastle Airport is worth AUD $1.5 billion annually with more than 3,500 personnel serving joint programmes with numerous countries including the United States.

The runway has a PCN rating that permits aircraft up to A380 in size to operate. Key international markets that will have direct international services are UK & Ireland, North America, SE Asia, Pacific and New Zealand.