What are the main airports in New Caledonia?

Nouméa Magenta Airport (GEA), La Tontouta International Airport (NOU), Lifou Airport (LIF), Île des Pins Airport (ILP), Maré Airport (MEE) and Ouvéa Airport (UVE), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.

Which is the busiest airport in New Caledonia?

Nouméa Magenta Airport (GEA), with 380,557 passengers (Wikidata, 2022).

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Airports in New Caledonia

11 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.

New Caledonia has 11 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 1 of them large. The busiest are Nouméa Magenta Airport (GEA, 380,557 passengers, Wikidata, 2022), La Tontouta International Airport (NOU, 320,333 passengers, Wikidata, 2022) and Lifou Airport (LIF, 160,928 passengers, Wikidata, 2022). Nouméa has more than one airport.

Code	Airport	Serves	Passengers / year	Routes
GEA	Nouméa Magenta Airport	Nouméa	380,557	—
NOU	La Tontouta International Airport	Nouméa	320,333	2
LIF	Lifou Airport	Lifou	160,928	—
ILP	Île des Pins Airport	Isle of Pines	84,591	—
MEE	Maré Airport	Maré	74,208	—
UVE	Ouvéa Airport	Ouvéa	67,509	—
KNQ	Koné Airport	Koné	5,474	—
KOC	Koumac Airport	Koumac	2,601	—
TGJ	Tiga Airport	Tiga	2,016	—
TOU	Touho Airport	Touho	1,522	—
BMY	Île Art - Waala Airport	Waala	1,124	—

Cities with more than one airport

Nouméa · 2 airports

Busiest routes

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
NOU – SYD	Sydney, Australia	1,980 km	79,715
BNE – NOU	Brisbane, Australia	1,451 km	60,151

Questions

New Caledonia has 11 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 1 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.