Auckland Airport

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Auckland Airport, formerly known as the Oakland International Airport, (IATA: AKL, ICAO: NZAA) - the largest commercial airport in New Zealand, annually serving more than 13 million passengers (according to statistics 7 million people a year are international and 6 million - on the internal flights) [1]. Auckland Airport is ranked third in the ranking of all airports in the world in the category of service from 5 to 15 million passengers a year. The expected volume of passenger traffic in 2025 should be doubled and reach about 26-27 million people per year [2]. The airport is located in the district Mangere Manukau western suburb 20 kilometers south of the central area of ​​the city of Auckland. The port is a major transit hub (hub) flagship airline of New Zealand Air New Zealand.
International Terminal

The reception area tickets for passengers on international flights is on the first floor of the east wing of the terminal.

The gate (gates) with the numbers 1-10 are equipped with jetways each one. Gates 15 and 16 have two apron and serve airliners, including the double-decker aircraft A380.

Gates 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 5A boarding bridges do not have and are the outputs of the platform for boarding the bus.

In November 2007, Auckland Airport has launched a master plan for the reconstruction and modernization of the airport complex, in which by 2011 should be extended area of ​​the international terminal and open a new arrival hall passengers. Arrivals will be linked to the car park through a system of escalators and elevators travalatorov. Currently, it remains an open question about how on one floor of the international terminal will be located reception area tickets, rooms pribytytiya and departure of passengers, baggage reclaim area and immigration and customs inspection. Management of the national airline Air New Zealand panned airport master plan as "unnecessary and untimely" and pointed to the possibility of abuse of monopoly in the market aviaobsluzhivaniya ground.
Separation zones

Up to 2006 passengers arriving and departing flights at Auckland Airport were in the same sterile area of ​​the airport. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 there was a need in the division of passenger traffic departing and arriving passengers on two unrelated area. Ministry of Civil Aviation of New Zealand Auckland Airport has issued a temporary permit for passenger service in a sterile area, the validity of this authorization was set up in 2006. However, maintenance of flights in the US, as well as all flights Qantas and Cathay Pacific have been moved into a separate gate equipped with optional scanner, metal detector and x-ray machine.

Guide Auckland Airport has decided not to follow the path of the construction of additional add-ins for arriving passengers hall (as was done in Beijing, Vancouver and London Heathrow) and developed a plan to expand the territory of the sterile area on the first floor of the terminal in the direction of existing gates and their subsequent separation of the total area of ​​sterile glass partitions. This plan was implemented in early 2006.
Domestic terminal

Domestic terminal building is actually two separate buildings previously used by economic needs of the airport who are related to each other a common extension of the trading area of ​​shops, cafes and restaurants. The main operators in the domestic terminal are airline Pacific Blue, Air New Zealand and Jetstar, which went on Qantas domestic flights and former carrier Ansett New Zealand.

For airline Jetstar secured gates with numbers 20 and 21, Pacific Blue uses a new gate 24, Air New Zealand - gates with numbers 29-33, all of the outputs on the landing equipped air bridges. Regional turboprop aircraft Air New Zealand and its partners are serviced at the gate at the end of the eastern wing of the sterile zone domestic terminal, while passengers get to the aircraft from the outputs of the east wing walk through the platform.