Cairns International Airport (CNS)

Quick facts

• Full name: Cairns International Airport
• Serves: Cairns, Australia
• Coordinates: -16.8858, 145.7550
• Elevation: 10 ft
• Time zone: Australia/Brisbane

Cairns International Airport sits inside the air network of Australia. It shows 56 distinct scheduled departures across 30 destinations and 16 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.

How to read this page

The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from CNS on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list CNS to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.

The airline list shows which carriers treat CNS as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.