Did you know?

2022 Financial Year passenger numbers*

• 3.26 million passengers travelled in and out of Christchurch Airport in the 2022 financial year. That compares to 3.71 million the prior year and just under 7 million pre-pandemic.
• Domestic passengers reduced 15% year on year whilst international passengers grew 152% as borders began to reopen in the second half of the year.
• For visitor arrival numbers by country of residence, please refer to Statistics New Zealand's monthly releases.
• View our monthly passenger arrivals and departures here.

2022 Financial Year reporting*   

• Net Profit After Tax, including underlying operating profit and revaluations of our investment property, totalled $59.5 million compared to $38.7 million the previous year.
• Our property portfolio performed strongly. Fair value gains on our investment property portfolio were $48.4 million, compared to $47.8 million the previous year. Our overall investment property portfolio was valued at $714 million, up 10.2% on the previous year.
• Our balance sheet strengthened with total asset book value increasing to $2,148 million. That’s growth of about $225 million since the start of the pandemic.
• The Board of Directors declared a dividend of $2.8 million.
• As a result we reported a positive Net Profit After Tax and paid a dividend each year of the pandemic.

Want to learn more? You can view our Annual Reviews here.

*to end of June 2022

Supporting our community  

As a business, we support the Christchurch, Canterbury and South Island economy in a wide range of ways:  

• More than 7,000 people are employed on the airport campus in full time, part time or casual roles, making it the largest single centre of employment in the South Island.  
• We create employment for more than 20,000 full time equivalent workers in the Canterbury region.  
• Antarctic operations delivers $80 million in direct benefits to the city annually.