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Car Hire Ayers Rock Airport - Mini guide to Ayers Rock Airport

AYERS ROCK AIRPORT

Ayers Rock airport is situated in the Northern Territory region, around the area near Alice Springs. This airport also goes by the name of Connellan Airport, and can accommodate private charters as well as public airlines. Situated in central Australia, this airport draws quite a decent amount of passengers. Ayers Rock airport also caters to scenic flights and private chartered flights, apart from the usual flights, and mainly operates only light aircrafts.

Ayers Rock airport has a single runway with TVASIS and simple lighting systems. The length of the runway comes up to about 2588 metres, at a width of 30 metres. This runway is designed to accommodate most planes including, the Boeings. The Boeing 717-200s are the most frequent planes moving in and out of this airport, and the biggest plane being landing and taking off here is the Boeing 737-800.

The main operator in the Ayers Rock airport is Qantas Airlines, and Qantas also offers a special QantasLink service. The cities which are covered by this airline from Ayers Rock airport include Cairns, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. In addition to these cities, Alice Springs is also covered by the QantasLink service.

The single main terminal at Ayers Rock airport offers a variety of facilities, ranging from Internet facilities, public telephones, baby change rooms, post boxes, National Geographic shops, Tourism Information stalls, and a Meet and Assist booth to help in checking in and out of Ayers Rock airport, along with other usual amenities of any airport.

This airport, being in a central region, is easily accessible by road . and car hire can be used by passengers to get in and out of the terminal. As taxis do not operate in the Ayers Rock airport, car hire is preferred over the bus services, as they offer a comfortable personalised travel. Another factor influencing the preference of car hire over other means of transportation is the convenience in travelling along with the luggage carried by passengers.

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