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Live flights over Christchurch International Airport (CHC)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 978 departures and 1,012 arrivals at Christchurch International Airport, 284 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Auckland (AKL), Wellington (WLG) and Dunedin (DUD). The airline seen most often is Air New Zealand.

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Airport data

IATA code
CHC
ICAO code
NZCH
City
Christchurch
Region
Canterbury Region
Country
New Zealand
Elevation
37 m (123 ft)
Coordinates
-43.48903, 172.53206

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Christchurch International Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Christchurch.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
284
departures + arrivals
Departures
978
total, 7 days
Arrivals
1,012
total, 7 days
Connections
23
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 124 142 266
Mon 2 141 144 285
Tue 3 140 143 283
Wed 4 164 171 335
Thu 5 172 185 357
Fri 6 133 133 266
Sat 7 104 94 198

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Auckland AKL 303 flights
  2. Wellington WLG 209 flights
  3. Dunedin DUD 71 flights
  4. Palmerston North PMR 71 flights
  5. Invercargill IVC 66 flights
  6. Nelson NSN 65 flights
  7. Hamilton HLZ 53 flights
  8. Sydney SYD Australia 50 flights
  9. Napier NPE 41 flights
  10. Melbourne MEL Australia 37 flights
  11. Tauranga TRG 35 flights
  12. Rotorua ROT 31 flights
  13. Brisbane BNE Australia 31 flights
  14. Queenstown ZQN 28 flights
  15. New Plymouth NPL 23 flights
  16. Singapore SIN Singapore 9 flights
7 more connections

Airlines

  1. Air New ZealandANZ 942
  2. Jetstar AirwaysJST 147
  3. QantasQFA 73
  4. SA Red Cross Air Mercy ServiceAMD 44
  5. Texel Air AustralasiaTNZ 36
  6. FDCFDC 26
  7. AirworkAWK 20
  8. Singapore AirlinesSIA 19
  9. China Southern AirlinesCSN 14
  10. EmiratesUAE 14

Aircraft

  1. ATR 72-600 AT76 567
  2. Airbus A320 A320 331
  3. Piper PA-28 Cherokee P28A 231
  4. Boeing 737-800 B738 125
  5. G2CA 92
  6. DH8C 91
  7. PA38 89
  8. EC45 60
  9. Airbus A321neo A21N 52
  10. Airbus A320neo A20N 43

How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of Christchurch International Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:

curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/-43.48903/lon/172.53206/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Christchurch right now?”

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Christchurch International Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Christchurch: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of CHC, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from Christchurch International Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Air New Zealand, Jetstar Airways, Qantas, SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service and Texel Air Australasia.

What are the main connections from Christchurch International Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Auckland (AKL, 303), Wellington (WLG, 209), Dunedin (DUD, 71), Palmerston North (PMR, 71) and Invercargill (IVC, 66). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Christchurch? +

Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.

What are the codes for Christchurch International Airport? +

Christchurch International Airport has IATA code CHC and ICAO code NZCH. It lies in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, at coordinates -43.48903, 172.53206.

Is the flight data free and open? +

Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.

Nearby airports

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Nelson Airport
Nelson Region, New Zealand
WLG · NZWN
Wellington International Airport
Wellington Region, New Zealand
DUD · NZDN
Dunedin International Airport
Otago Region, New Zealand

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