Gisborne Airport, based on the eastern coast of Northern Island of New Zealand, is a small regional airport that is located on the western outskirts of Gisborne. The airport is among the very few airports in the world that have a rail route intersecting a runway. The Gisborne airport which covers a land of 160 hectares has three grass runways and one usual runway.The airport successfully carries a crowd of more than 150,0000 passengers each year.

Why is it unique

Gisborne Airport is an impressive airport, which is situated in New Zealand. It is on of the major airports on this island with a railway line, the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line, intersecting the main runway (14/32), which is a night sealed runway and is 1310 meters in length. Very often trains or aircrafts are stopped until the one of them moves on. The runway is divided by rail route inbetween 777m and 868m. Given the circumstances, the runway extension is active when the airport tower is opened (0630 hours to 2030 hours daily), otherwise the rail route functions actively. It is a very challenging task for the airport authorities to manage landing at the intersecting runway along the operational rail route which has scheduled departures and arrivals itself. And yet, the airport operations have been run without any glitch so far.

Gisborne Airport can all together be a different pleasure to watch and experience when the aircrafts are stopped for the departure of scheduled trains. There are three more grass runways at Gisborne Airport which are used for multiple landings and takeoffs to be used by small aircrafts which can accommodate around 50 people. The airport is a major link to enter the small region of Gisborne and hosts more than 60 domestic flights. Air New Zealand, operated by Air Nelson and Eagle airways and Sunair are the airlines which fly from this airport.