Main Terminal
The single terminal handles domestic and international flights. International departures use the north-west pier, and all arriving passengers collect their bags on the Ground Floor.
Wellington International Airport (WLG) is the airport for Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, and for the wider Wellington region at the southern tip of the North Island. It stands in the suburb of Rongotai, between Evans Bay and Lyall Bay, about 5.5 km southeast of the city center in a straight line and about 8 km by road through the Mount Victoria Tunnel.
Air New Zealand is the main airline, linking Wellington with Auckland, Christchurch, Queenstown and most other cities in the country, while Jetstar, Sounds Air, Originair, Air Chathams and Golden Bay Air add domestic and regional routes, including short hops across Cook Strait to Picton and Nelson. Across the Tasman, Air New Zealand, Qantas and Jetstar fly to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, and Fiji Airways flies to Nadi. The airport handled about 5.1 million passengers in 2025.
Every flight uses one terminal with three piers, so domestic and international passengers arrive under the same roof.
From the airport, most travelers head into the central city, Lambton Quay, Courtenay Place and the waterfront around Te Papa and Oriental Bay, usually 15 to 25 minutes by road. Others go to the Interislander and Bluebridge ferry terminals for the crossing to the South Island, to the cruise wharves, or north to Lower Hutt and Petone in the Hutt Valley.