CAPA / Aviation Week
15 September 2026
Few major airports and country gateways are as isolated as Christchurch, on New Zealand's South Island.
2025/2026 financial year, which ended in Jun-2026, saw a sharp increase in international travel at Christchurch, and the coming together of several infrastructure projects - including superior in-terminal passenger facilities, which encouraged a rise in non-aeronautical revenues while a huge solar farm was completed (although it is not yet in operation).
Those. and other factors, enabled a 30% hike in underlying operational profit and improvements across all financial KPIs, and all achieved in a challenging aviation environment worldwide from which Christchurch is not immune...
