Armidale Airport 4.62

Armidale Airport is an airport serving Armidale, a city in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located 2NM southwest of the town centre, on the New England Highway. The airport is operated by the Armidale Dumaresq Shire Council.FacilitiesThe airport resides at an elevation of 3556ft above mean sea level. It has two runways: 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 1738x and 09/27 with a grassed gravel surface measuring 1116x.Airlines and destinationsPrevious airlinesEast-West Airlines operated from Sydney and Brisbane to Armidale from 1949 until 1988 when the routes were taken over by Eastern Australia Airlines (then a subsidiary of Australian Airlines, now a subsidiary of Qantas).Hazelton Airlines, an affiliate of Ansett Australia, operated between Sydney and Armidale from 1989 until the company collapsed in 2002.Impulse Airlines operated services to Sydney and Brisbane from 1994 until it was taken over by Qantas in 2001.