Armidale Airport is an airport serving Armidale, a city in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located 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 above mean sea level. It has two runways: 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring and 09/27 with a grassed gravel surface measuring.Airlines and destinationsQantasLink operates up to five services a day using Q300 aircraft. It is expected that in the future, selected services may be operated by Q400 aircraft.Previous airlinesEast-West Airlines operated from Sydney and Brisbane to Armidale from 1949 until 1988 when the company was 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.
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