Queenstown International Airport is located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, and serves the resort town of Queenstown.The airport is 8km by road from the CBD. The airport handled 924,248 airline scheduled passengers for the year ending June 2011, with passenger numbers growing rapidly. At present its the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.HistoryA regular scenic route between Queenstown and Milford Sound was first established by Southern Scenic Air Services Ltd in August 1951. Mount Cook Airline was the pioneer of tourist flights into Queenstown. Services began on 6 November 1961 operating DC-3s with three flights a week being operated from Christchurch on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Queenstown via Mount Cook and onto Te Anau/Manapouri. Later in 1969 HS-748 aircraft were used. A Mainstay of the Milford route was the Britten Norman Islander which began service in September 1970. They were used extensively on the flights to Milford Sound as well as on the Queenstown-Te Anau and Queenstown-Alexandra-Dunedin routes.
Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Otago, New Zealand located 18 kilometres to the northeast of the town of Queenstown and seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1,649 metre peak which shares its name. A popular ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere, Coronet Peak offers a long snow season, excellent skiing and snowboarding terrain and lift systems.
